Discipline Quote by Robert McKee Download Open image “All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.” — Robert McKee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Discipline Drill sergeant Screenwriting Writing
I think that screenwriting probably isn't seen as writing in the same way that novel-writing is seen as writing. But I certainly don't see… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty. — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing. — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline. — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
People, certainly in the U.K., look down on screenwriting as an art form, but I love the discipline of it. Next to the bagginess… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Story isn't a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality, — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Don't be didactic - don't write about poverty. Write about poor people. When you dramatize their lives and let life and characters be your… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Talent without craft is like fuel without an engine, it burns wildly but accomplishes nothing. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
“If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit.” — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Classical design is a mirror of the human mind. It's how we see the world. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
The universal erosion of values has lead to the universal erosion of story. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Good story' means something worth telling that the world wants to hear. Finding this is your lonely task...But the love of a good story,… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
Grit and self-control are related, but they're not the same thing. — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
You can't have the fruits without the roots. It's the principle of sequencing: Private Victories proceed Public Victories. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when I feel like… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
The undisciplined child enters into discipline by working in the company of others; not being told he is naughty.” “Discipline is, therefore, primarily a… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“Proverbs from the East: The wind howls, but the mountain remains still. Even though I make no special attempt to observe the discipline of… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
To behave creatively in art means behavior with skill; and skill comes from discipline, not derangement. The artist who knows the rules -and proportion… — Burne Hogarth Copy Share Image
Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for… — Gary Ryan Blair Copy Share Image
