No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.

Secure writers don't sell first drafts. They patiently rewrite until the script is as director-ready, as actor-ready as possible. Unfinished work invites tampering, while polished, mature work seals its integrity.

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.

The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn't, the story fails.

Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the phenomenon known as aesthetic emotion...Life on its own, without art to shape it, leaves you in confusion and chaos, but aesthetic emotion harmonizes what you know with what you feel to give you a heightened awareness and a sureness of your place in reality.

Writing is a marathon, not a sprint.

When you do enough research, the story almost writes itself. Lines of development spring loose and you'll have choices galore.