Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

If 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.

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

Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.

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.

It seems to me that the civilized human being is a skeptic someone who believes nothing at face value.