No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.
Robert McKeeThe students realize that it's their life I'm talking about: it's out of balance, they're struggling to put it into balance. How are they going to do it?
Robert McKeeIf you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're condemned to hum the same old tune.
Robert McKeeOf the total creative effort represented in a finished work, 75 percent or more of a writer's labor goes into designing the story designing story tests the maturity and insight of the writer, his knowledge of society, nature, and the human heart. Story demands both vivid imagination and powerful analytic thought.
Robert McKee