When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.
– Robert McKee
Tag: Quotable
Quotable 294
Think in terms of what audiences think. They go to the theatre, and they either notice that their butts are numb, or they don’t. If you’re doing your job right, they don’t.
– Joss Whedon
Quotable 293
Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art – the art of words.
– Ursula K. LeGuin
Quotable 292
Writing is something you do alone. It’s a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don’t want to make eye contact while doing it.
– John Green
Quotable 291
When you are rooting for a character to die for being so inexplicably hostile and inept, the writing has failed.
– Jamahl Epsicokhan
Quotable 290
There is nothing new in art except talent.
– Anton Chekhov
Quotable 289
Nothing will get me to shut a book faster than characters who don’t have a developed personality that informs their actions.
– Liz Tampa
Quotable 288
Little has happened in my life, but I have read a great deal.
– Jorge Luis Borges
Quotable 287
Writing during periods of despair is not a burden; it’s an escape.
– Ken Levine
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Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
– Neil Gaiman