31 quotes found
“We realize we can't go around saying and doing what we're actually thinking and feeling. If we all did that, life would be a lunatic asylum. Indeed, that's how you know you're talking to a lunatic....”
“Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the phenomenon known as aesthetic emotion...Life on its own, withou...”
“Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.”
“Quality storytelling inspires quality dialogue.”
“In comedy laughter settles all arguments.”
“Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly.”
“Nothing moves forward in a story except through conflict. Writers who cannot grasp this truth, the truth of conflict, writers who have been misled by the counterfeit comforts of modern life into be...”
“You do not keep the audience's interest by giving it information, but by withholding information ....”
“Curiosity is the intellectual need to answer questions and close open patterns. Story plays to this universal desire by doing the opposite, posing questions and opening situations.”
“Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.”
“Classical design is a mirror of the human mind. It's how we see the world.”
