Storytelling, then, is born from our need to order everything outside ourselves. A story is like a magnet dragged through randomness, pulling the chaos of things into some kind of shape and – if we’re very lucky – some kind of sense. Every tale is an attempt to lasso a terrifying reality, tame it and bring it to heel.
John Yorke
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Yorke_(producer)
A film is only as good as its villain.
Alfred Hitchcock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock
The essential characteristic of the really great novelist is a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
Arnold Bennett
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Bennett
How To Deal With The Press
She’ll urge you to confide. Resist.
Be careful, courteous, and cool.
Never trust a journalist.
‘We’re off the record,’ she’ll insist.
If you believe her, you’re a fool.
She’ll urge you to confide. Resist.
Should you tell her who you’ve kissed,
You’ll see it all in print, and you’ll
Never trust a journalist
Again. The words are hers to twist,
And yours the risk of ridicule.
She’ll urge you to confide. Resist.
‘But X is nice,’ the publicist
Will tell you. ‘We were friends at school.’
Never trust a journalist
Hostile, friendly, sober, pissed,
Male or female – that’s the rule.
When tempted to confide, resist.
Never trust a journalist.
Wendy Cope
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Cope
Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
Kurt Vonnegut
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut
Sports journalist Walter Wellesley ‘Red’ Smith was asked if turning out a daily column wasn’t a chore. “Why no” dead-panned Red, “you simply sit down at the typewriter, open your veins, and bleed.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Smith_(sportswriter)
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Angelou
The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt and humiliation.
Steven Pressfield
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Pressfield
If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you, but if you really make them think, they’ll hate you.
Don Marquis
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=Don+Maquis&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go&ns0=1
