To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write.

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.

Life is chaotic and meaningless, and you have to find your meaning. You must find the answer, you can't just live. That's the point of story: helping you find your meaning in life.

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.

Writing is a marathon, not a sprint.

Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.

God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write a voice-over narration to explain the thoughts of a character.

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.

Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression.

Instead of falling, I am dancing with the wind.

It was painful to have him so near, yet beyond my reach.

For a moment, blake said nothing. After chewing on her venom for a moment, he shrugged. "I would rather hate you for who I am than love me for who I am not

You're either living on purpose or performance.

I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog.

Mrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal.

There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.

Love can climb the highest mountain or sink to the lowest depth

If something looks difficult, it is more fantastic to do it! Stay away from the easy things!

The Democratic National Committee is virtually 100 percent anti-firearms ownership, and the Republican National Committee stands on the side of the freedom.