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William Goldman is an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He came to prominence in the 1950s as a novelist, before turning to writing for film. He has won two Academy Awards for his screenplays, first for the western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and again for All the President's Men , about journalists who broke the Watergate scandal of President Richard Nixon. Both films starred Robert Redford.

His other notable works include his thriller novel Marathon Man and comedy-fantasy novel The Princess Bride, both of which Goldman adapted for film.

Author Sean Egan has described Goldman as "one of the late twentieth century’s most popular storytellers."

✵ 12. August 1931 – 16. November 2018  •  Other names ویلیام قلدمن
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William Goldman Quotes

“You don't want to be rude but you have to be careful - there are a lot of strange people out there.


(Goldman attributes this quote to Cliff Robertson.)”

William Goldman

Source: Adventures In The Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood

“Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.”

William Goldman

“Fezzik's in trouble, bubble bubble,
His brain is just not in the pink,
His mind is rubble, rub-a-dub double,
Because everyone needs him to think.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

“Anything there is that I can do for you, I will do for you; anything there is that I cannot do, I will learn to do.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

“I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

“There’s death coming up, and you better understand this:some of the wrong people die. Be ready for it.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

“Nobody knows anything…… Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.”

William Goldman book Adventures in the Screen Trade

Source: Adventures in the Screen Trade

“Let me get this thing straight, Inigo--we had SCRAPS for dinner? I'M in YOUR fantasy and the best you can come up with is SCRAPS?" She turned toward the door then. "You have no chance of winning my heart.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

“In Hollywood, no one knows anything.”

William Goldman

“I've been in the revenge buisness for so long, now that it's over I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

“Life is pain. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Variant: Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
Source: The Princess Bride

“You are wonderful, Father.""I'm more than wonderful, how dare you insult me.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

“You're alive!" Fezzik cried.
The man in black sat immobile, like a ventriloquist's dummy, just his mouth moving. "That is perhaps the most childishly obvious remark I have ever come across…”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

“I am as devoted to adventure now as then, and that’s never going to stop.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

“Is this a kissing book?”

William Goldman

“you miserable vomitous mass”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

The Princess Bride