Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Millard Kaufman

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist Millard Kaufman.
Last updated on September 19, 2024.
Millard Kaufman

Millard Kaufman was an American screenwriter and novelist. His works include the Academy Award-nominated Bad Day at Black Rock (1955). He was also one of the creators of Mr. Magoo.

Happiness, it has been observed, is best achieved by those who have been most unhappy heretofore.
No one will ever make your movie. They will only make their movie.
Happiness when sustained too long in print can rightly be construed as sappiness. — © Millard Kaufman
Happiness when sustained too long in print can rightly be construed as sappiness.
I glanced out the window at the signs of spring. The sky was almost blue, the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost bright.
She wrote poetry constantly; that was her "work". She was a slow bleeder and she slaved over it for long, exhausting hours, and many a middle of a night I could hear her creaking around the dead house with a pen in one hand, a clipboard and a flashlight in the other, refining her poems, jotting down the lines of a conceit. Writing never came easy for her; it gave her calluses. She never courted the muses, she wrestled them, mauled them all over the house and came up, after weeks of peripatetic labor, with a slim Spencerian sonnet, fourteen lines of imagistic jabberwocky.
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