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Creativity is choice-making.
— Robert McKee
The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself.
— Robert McKee
When you do enough research, the story almost writes itself. Lines of development spring loose and you'll have choices galore.
— Robert McKee
You can't fail if you don't quit.I don't know who originally said this, but it is true. — Christy McKee
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.
— Robert McKee
The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.
— Brian K. Vaughan
OUr past doesn't define us. It prepares us.
— Maralee McKee
It doesn't matter who you come from. It matters who you become.
— Suzanne Young
In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.
— Robert McKee
When I write for myself, I just get to be myself.
— Bonnie McKee
Stories build cultures by answering the big questions.
— Robert McKee
The dirty secret of art is you don't have to show people your bad writing. That's what we have the delete key for.
— Robert McKee
Story is about eternal, universal forms, not formulas.
— Robert McKee
Ninety percent of what we create is not our best work.
— Robert McKee
I think it's nice to be able to make a product, put it out there and let other people decide what they think.
— Gina McKee
Mastery of craft frees the subconscious.
— Robert McKee
As he chooses, he is.
— Robert McKee
I think I'm very open and friendly and warm.
— Gina McKee
There's a way of negotiating how you portray your private life publicly that I've never had the skill to do.
— Gina McKee
Never sleep with anybody who has more problems than you do.
— Robert McKee
Talent without craft is like fuel without an engine, it burns wildly but accomplishes nothing.
— Robert McKee
Writing is a marathon, not a sprint.
— Robert McKee
In comedy laughter settles all arguments.
— Robert McKee
You do not keep the audience's interest by giving it information, but by withholding information ...
— Robert McKee
A chief cause of worry and unhappiness in life is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
— Maralee McKee
Dialogue concentrates meaning; conversation dilutes it.
— Robert McKee
It's nice to really have the freedom to write what I want.
— Bonnie McKee
I tend to get a little quirkier and crazier with my lyrics and come from a different angle when I'm writing for myself.
— Bonnie McKee
Story is about originality, not duplication
— Robert McKee
Quality storytelling inspires quality dialogue.
— Robert McKee
I think one day I'd like to win an Oscar.
— Bonnie McKee
Story isn't a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality,
— Robert McKee
The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn't, the story fails.
— Robert McKee
No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.
— Robert McKee
I just want to give people something to dance to, and something to cry to, and laugh to and fall in love to.
— Bonnie McKee
When society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates.
— Robert McKee
Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.
— Robert McKee
No matter what, I always have expensive designer shoes. It's all about the shoes for me.
— Bonnie McKee
I'd like to go the Cher route and act and sing and write and have a TV show and do it all.
— Bonnie McKee
I was always super, super musical. So my parents recognized that and put me in choirs, piano lessons, and all that.
— Bonnie McKee
I love writing with Adam Lambert. He's really funny and very fun, he's a great friend.
— Bonnie McKee
I was one of those kids who found it difficult to eat anything that looked like an animal.
— Gina McKee
It seems to me that the civilized human being is a skeptic someone who believes nothing at face value.
— Robert McKee
The National Youth Theatre did one very simple but incredible thing for me: it made me realise I had choices.
— Gina McKee
Leaders use story to author the future.
— Robert McKee
It's just funny that anybody would care at all to take apart the words that I write. It's kind of cool!
— Bonnie McKee
( ... )while it's true that the unexamined life is not worth living, it's also true that the unlived life isn't worth examining.
— Robert McKee
Too many people get away with truly awful 'reasoning', not because what they are arguing happens to be true, but because they are in the majority.
— Ellie Rose McKee
Creatures stalking each other over time grew a bond from mind to mind.
— Suzy McKee Charnas
To connect to people at the deepest level, you need stories.
— Robert McKee
I will hold my self to a standard of grace which is Christ's gift, not perfection which is Satan's trap.
— Maralee McKee
The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect.
— Robert McKee
Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater,Had a wife and couldn't keep her.
Of course you cannot keep a wife-
Everyone's got to live their life! — Kristen McKee
Stories are the currency of human relationships.
— Robert McKee
I cannot be a character in a bad movie. I can't be.
— Robert McKee
If I could have any power, I think flying would definitely be up there! Along with speaking every language.
— Roxanne McKee
We all have guilt. It just can't be all that we have.
— Suzanne Young
I made a list of things I wanted to do with my life, but it ended up mostly being a list of books I wanted to write
— Ellie Rose McKee
Not all fiction writers are evil, just the ones good at their job. After all, it's not a decent book if it can't make you cry.
— Ellie Rose McKee
No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.
— Robert McKee
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.
— Robert McKee
Asking a consumer about his opinion of your advertising is like asking a deer about the best way to hunt it.
— Steve McKee
Things are not exactly going to plan.
— Suzanne Young
I'd live in Glasgow if I could. I can't praise it enough; it's the nicest place I have ever worked and I've worked in a lot of nice places.
— Roxanne McKee
In real life I'm pretty easy going and pretty chill, I'm not the party girl who will go wild and crazy necessarily.
— Bonnie McKee
We rarely know where we are going; writing is a discovery.
— Robert McKee
I've always had a teenage thread running through my music.
— Bonnie McKee
Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.
— Robert McKee
The ornaments of your home are the people who smile upon entering time and time again.
— Maralee McKee
Sometimes you just gotta suck at being the person people think you are.
— Ellie Rose McKee
When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.
— Robert McKee
Maybe I'd like to be a little more than friends with Ryan Gosling, but I'd just like to hang out occasionally.
— Bonnie McKee
Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.
— Robert McKee
