79 Quotes by Marcus Sakey

The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started voting for people smarter than they are.

Personally, one of the most helpful things I learned was three-act structure. For my first four or so novels, I built the structure intuitively.

Mom and Dad chatting around mouthfuls of steak while Junior used the scraps of his hamburger to buttress the walls of Fort French Fry.

Once I came to really understand the mechanics of three-act structure, my life got a great deal easier. It doesn’t tell you how to write your book, but it helps you understand why things aren’t working, or what kind of beat needs to come next.

A city of unarmed dreamers huddling beneath angry skies.

Around here, I’m pretty sure ‘us’ means Texans, and ‘them’ means the other seven billion on the planet.

Hollywood is a deeply odd place. There are so many factors that have to go perfectly, so many schedules and visions that have to snap together for a film even to be made, much less be good.

No matter how long you spend at creation, you’re always a student.

She’d always been blunt, to the point that people sometimes mistook her for cold. In truth, she was one of the warmest people he had ever met. It was just that she had the honesty of someone with nothing to prove.