Quote by Robert McKee Download Open image ““When society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates.”” — Robert McKee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
“I believe that a writer should never attempt a contemporary theme or a very precise topography. Otherwise people are immediately going to find mistakes.… — Fernando Sorrentino Copy Share Image
Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing social follies,… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
“These were times when the sheer splendour of language and the boundless potential of the human imagination to transcend the inexorable, horrendous dullness of… — M.J. Nicholls Copy Share Image
“We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is to see… — Ann Lamott Copy Share Image
“Authors are the curators of experience. They filter the world's noise, and out of that noise they make the purest signal they can-out of… — Peter Mendelsund Copy Share Image
“Everyone has a story. It is what defines us. Our stories continue to change as we evolve in-and-out of our own skin, changing and… — Brandon Garic Notch Copy Share Image
“Stories are a parasitical life form, warping lives in the service only of the story itself.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Accurate and questioning dramatic and written narratives that expose true human character, is the necessary glue of any intelligent, enduring and compassionate society.” — Yon Walls Copy Share Image
“The wretchedness of ordinary life, endured so gaily when it is part of our normal existence, is made far worse when it comes as… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and… — Gregorio C. Brillantes Copy Share Image
“Stories trace their roots to impassioned human interactions with the world. I always sense a storyline as an emotional yearning embedded in a deep… — Kilroy J. Oldster 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
