“Today is the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. President Lincoln wrote it on his way to the site of the speech on the back of an envelope. One guy on the back of an envelope wrote the great Gettysburg Address - while every night it takes six guys to write this crap!” WayWritingTodayNightGuyPresidentSpeechSixAddressesEvery NightSiteCrapEnvelopesGettysburgGettysburg AddressPresident Lincoln Author:David Letterman
“I think Cool Hand Luke was probably the first movie in which I was aware of the writing as its own separate thing. It was that speech when the guy reads Paul Newman the riot act. The speech about going in the box.” ThinkingWritingFirstsHandsGuySpeechBoxesRiotLukeNewman Author:Brian Helgeland