The act of choosing - the stories we tell versus the stories we leave out - will reverberate across the rest of your life. - Lin-Manuel Miranda

As a practical matter, I like the dramatic monologue for its compelling intimacy. To be inside one’s character, to register his or her every vagrant thought, emotion, and response - the first-person viewpoint grants this privilege and immediacy. - Norman Lock

Video games foster the mindset that allows creativity to grow. - Nolan Bushnell

Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent. - Dr. Seuss

From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct an interview, to find information, to research, and above all, to use language as efficiently as possible and to remember always that there is a reader out there. - Isabel Allende

Creative without strategy is called art. Creative with strategy is called advertising. - Jef I. Richards

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can’t stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to. - T.S. Eliot

To make a great film, you need three things: the script, the script, and the script. - Alfred Hitchcock

The Internet is allowing us to get back to what’s really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It is our natural way to be communal. - Joseph Gordon Levitt