To retreat behind the notion that the audience simply wants to dump its troubles at the door and escape reality is a cowardly abandonment of the arti… - Robert McKee

Story isn’t a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality, our best effort to make sense out of the anarchy of existence.

Story isn’t a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality,

Most human beings believe that life brings closed experiences of absolute, irreversible change; that their greatest sources of conflict are external to themselves; that they are the single and active protagonists of their own existence; that their existence operates through continuous time within a consistent, causally interconnected reality; and that inside this reality events happen for explainable and meaningful reasons.

Story is metaphor for life, and to be alive is to be in seemingly perpetual conflict.

When talented people write badly, it's generally for one of two reasons: Either they're blinded by an idea they feel compelled to prove of they're driven by an emotion they must express. When talented people write well, it is generally for this reason: They're moved by a desire to touch the audience.