Story isn't a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality.

God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write a voice-over narration to explain the thoughts of a character.

Story isn't a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality.

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.

Classical design is a mirror of the human mind. It's how we see the world.

Stories are how we remember; we tend to forget lists and bullet points.

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.