Leaders use story to author the future.

In comedy laughter settles all arguments.

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.

To connect to people at the deepest level, you need stories.

Never sleep with anybody who has more problems than you do.

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.