Top 26 Larry Brooks Quotes
#1. The bar is high. But now you have a ladder.
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#2. The Six Core Competencies do not define or offer a formula. Rather, they define structure driven by criteria for the elements that comprise it.
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#3. Doing a lot of reading is not the prerequisite to writing.
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#5. 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.
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#7. In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or energy.
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#8. The president of Goodwill Industries made $800,000 a year.
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#9. Show enough backstory to allow the reader to glean and make assumptions about what remains behind the curtain of time, yet continues to influence the character's worldview, attitudes, decisions, and actions.
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#10. 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
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#11. Remember - write this down, it's critical - nothing fuels a story quite like hope.
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#12. We need to break free from the habits of mind and behavior, to discover the possibilities of who we can become.
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#13. What if that child survived, and the lineage continues to this day, meaning the ancestors of Christ are walking among us?
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#14. Here's the truth about organic writing: It's just story planning by another name.
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#15. If you're playing God, you need to get it right.
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#16. Remember, the essence of storytelling demands that we place our main characters on a path. A quest with something at stake, with something to do, to achieve, to learn, and to change.
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#17. Men leave women for other women. Women leave men for another way of life.
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#18. Even when we stop typing and leave the house, we remain writers.
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#19. Instinct is the elusive magic that happens when art collides with hard-won craft.
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#20. 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.
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#21. Because, if you haven't wrapped your head around this principle, chances are you'll never sell a story.
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#22. 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.
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#23. [on scene execution] Interesting isn't the point ... storytelling momentum and relevance is.
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#24. 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
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#25. Love your scenes, and they'll love you in return.
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#26. Mine were the actions of a desperate man. Present a defining moment to one and he'll bite every time.
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