Quotes from Larry Brooks

even when we stop typing and leave the house, we remain writers.

on scene execution] Interesting isn't the point...storytelling momentum and relevance is .

We get to play God with our stories.

I believe that we take every memory and every moment with us, and that whatever those memories are become our heaven or our hell.

Writing is a two-party democracy. To the left are those who write stories from their heart, or according to the other side of the aisle, from the seat of their pants. On the right are those who write stories from a meticulously constructed outline.

In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or energy.

But writers experience the world and themselves in a unique way. We look for meaning. We see it even when we are not paying attention, which is seldom because, as writers, paying attention is what we do. We are scribes to the ticking of the days, and we have a job to do. We are not at peace unless we are doing it.

Most of us are one of two things: blind or chicken-shit. We wouldn't know a crossroads in our lives if it had a set of stoplights and a Denny's.

If you've ever wondered why some writers who, in your humble opinion, don't write as well as you do yet are rich and famous while you struggle onward, this is the reason. They are great directors.

Instinct is the elusive magic that happens when art collides with hard-won craft.

Never hire anyone who starts a sentence with the word "Dude!" and never work for a guy who doesn't know the difference between mute and moot

Because, if you haven't wrapped your head around this principle, chances are you'll never sell a story.

Writing voice isn't as much a function of thinking as it is something that eludes definition and therefore assimilation.  The more artful flavors of prose are more often a function of intuition and imitation fused with heart and wit and delivered with a strong does of lyric sensibility. It

The bar is high. But now you have a ladder.

Mine were the actions of a desperate man. Present a defining moment to one and he'll bite every time.

As a writer, you are that architect.

We all select our fates based on the paths we choose.

I paused, allowing the

Men leave women for other women. Women leave men for another way of life.

The First Plot Point of your story is when the story's primary tension—its antagonistic force—makes its initial full frontal appearance in a form that imparts meaning and consequence to the story's hero, and in context to stakes you have already established

Doing a lot of reading is not the prerequisite to writing.

The fact is men can't handle it. They can't take the heat when it gets ugly. Women, on the other hand, band together in the face of pain. They get strong. And then they get even.

the president of Goodwill Industries made $800,000 a year.

The Six Core Competencies do not define or offer a formula. Rather, they define structure driven by criteria for the elements that comprise it.