“I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some of the epic writers of our country's history, very rarely do you find upper-class royalty. We seem to delve into the struggle of life and the labor of life much more frequently.” PeopleLooksCountryStoriesBigsSeemsClassStruggleFansLaborMarkOur CountryEpicRoyaltyLife StruggleUpper Class Author:Lucas Neff
“I believe you should tell the story of injustices, of inequalities, of bad conditions, so that the people as a whole in this country really face the problems that people who are pushed to the point of striking know all about, but others know practically nothing about.” PeopleKnowsShouldBelieveCountryWholeStoriesProblemFacesI BelieveConditionsLaborInjusticeInequality Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“When the press writes scare stories about the global labor supply draining jobs from rich to poor places, the story is usually presented as a "race to the bottom" simply in terms of wages. Capitalism supposedly looks for labor wherever labor is cheapest. This story is half wrong. A kind of cultural selection is also at work, so that jobs leave high-wage countries like the United States and Germany, but migrate to low-wage economies with skilled, sometimes overqualified workers.” WritingLooksKindCountrySometimesStatesStoriesJobsTermPoorUnitedRaceHalfUnited StatesEconomyRichLowsCapitalismLaborPressesWorkersBottomGermanyScareWagesSelectionDrainingMigrateOverqualified Book:The Culture of the New Capitalism Source: The Culture of the New Capitalism
“But to write - that is grief and labor; and to read what one has written - how unlike the story as one saw it; how dull, how spirtless - that is enough to send one weeping to bed.” WritingEnoughStoriesGriefSawsWrittenBedLaborDullWeeping Author:Winifred Holtby
“Of the total creative effort represented in a finished work, 75 percent or more of a writer's labor goes into designing the story designing story tests the maturity and insight of the writer, his knowledge of society, nature, and the human heart. Story demands both vivid imagination and powerful analytic thought.” HumansHeartStoriesImaginationPowerfulEffortCreativeDesignDemandPercentLaborTestsInsightFinishedMaturityHuman HeartVividAnalyticsFinished WorkVivid Imagination Author:Robert McKee