Susan Isaacs Quotes

Maybe that's my lot in life as an actor, to be the guy who gets crapped on everywhere he goes. Oh God.

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living.

I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health, must leave others to wear the laurels which I have sown, others to eat the bread which I have earned. A common case.

I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed.

There's almost nothing worse to live with than a struggling artist.

When I wrote 'The Rozabal Line,' I had no preconceived notions of what a commercial bestseller should be. I have always viewed 'The Rozabal Line' as my first love and probably my best work. The fact, however, is that it is my least read work.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

I feel like I've never been in a film that people have liked before.

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

I don't believe in happy endings.

I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.

My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.

I know writers, and they seem to be the most disgruntled part of the art world.

Once you've published a few books, you drag around this ball and chain of a back list. All the evidence of how few you've sold is there. I think a lot of writers my age have this strange experience of going from would-be to has-been.

You write a spec, and you pour your heart and soul and life into a spec, and you think that spec is the movie that's going to sell and get made... I've never heard of anybody that happened to.

It used to frustrate me when I'd get celebrities on my shows and I had to meet them as this ludicrous magician character rather than as myself.

To have your films not liked or not watched or failed, is not an easy thing to handle.

Sometimes I feel I'm being animated, but it comes off differently. Unfortunately, I was cursed with these sleepy eyes.

I don't like false happy endings, and I don't think the real world is such a forgiving place.

Whenever money is in the game, it can suffocate anything and anyone else, and I think people have been misled by money, or the dream of money, or selling the dream that if you've made it money-wise, you've made a life. Which is a lie. You don't get happiness by money.

There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time.

Happy endings make me puke.

Don't be discouraged if you think you're not a great writer because terrible writers are successful in Hollywood