Degenerates Quote by Robert McKee

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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Stories are a parasitical life form, warping lives in the service only of the story itself.”

— Terry Pratchett

“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

“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

“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

“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