Stories are the currency of human relationships.

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

Politics is the name we give to the orchestration of power in any society.

Stories build cultures by answering the big questions.

Of all the reasons for wanting to write, the only one that nurtures us through time is love of the work itself.

Of 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.

Talent without craft is like fuel without an engine, it burns wildly but accomplishes nothing.