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Posts Tagged ‘William J. Durant

I was reading “Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting” by Robert Mckee today and came across this quote: A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires and tragedies, dramas and comedies that shine a clean light into the dingy [...]

For 13 years I worked as a photojournalist telling compelling stories. I knew I wanted to be journalist, more so a storyteller, when I read this William J. Durant quote: Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, [...]