Quotes from William Goldman's books, and about them
The Princess Bride on Moby-Dick: “Just as the chapters on whaling in Moby Dick can be omitted by all but the most punishment-loving readers, so the packing scenes that Morgenstern details here are really best left alone.”
The Princess Bride on The Wizard of Oz: “Morgenstern's Florinese version came before Baum wrote The Wizard of Oz, so in spite of the fact that he was the originator, he comes out just the other way around.”
The Princess Bride on Time and Again: “I read recently that the fine Jack Finney novel Time and Again has taken close to twenty years and still hasn't made it to the screen.”
The Princess Bride on The Idiot: “Can you imagine cornering Dostoyevsky and begging him for funny stuff about The Idiot?”
The Princess Bride on The Deerslayer: “"Cooper maybe," she'd say, so off I went into The Deerslayer and all the Leatherstocking stuff, and then on my own one day I stumbled onto Dumas and D'Artagnan.”
The Princess Bride on The Stepford Wives: “I am going mad having meetings on Ira Levin's The Stepford Wives, which I am adapting for the Silver Screen.”
The Princess Bride on The Body: “Rob's career really took off with Stand By Me, another work by King (a novella called The Body).”
The Princess Bride on Brothers and Sisters: “she wrote terrific books about how we screw up our children— Brothers and Sisters was one of her books, The Eldest Child was another.”
The Princess Bride on The Eldest Child: “she wrote terrific books about how we screw up our children— Brothers and Sisters was one of her books, The Eldest Child was another.”