The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny.
And I'm not anti-sequel, but I just feel like there are very few ideas that are meant to be continued.
The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.
Use what you know. Draw from it. It doesnt always mean plot or fact. It means capturing a truth from your experiencing it, expressing values you personally feel deep down in your core.
The best stories infuse wonder.
No one's going to see my mistakes; I just need the safety of these mistakes to lead me to the right answers.
I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.
This merely formal conceiving of the facts of one's own wretchedness is at the same time a departure from them--placing them in the object. It is not idle, therefore, to observe reflexively that in that very Thought, one has separated himself from them, and is no longer that which empirically he still sees himself to be.
I believe every childhood should be magical.
The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.
We must appraise civilization in relation to its territory and in relation to its duration. The character of the medium of communication tends to create a bias in civilization favourable to an over-emphasis on the time concept or on the space concept and only at rare intervals are the biases offset by the influence of another medium and stability achieved.