Marcus Sakey Quotes

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  • 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.

    Three   Four   Firsts  
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  • 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.

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  • I didn't want to just write a series - I wanted to write an epic, on story that spans three books, where decisions made in the first impact the last.

    Book   Writing   Epic  
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  • I'm always geeking out about something.

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  • 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.

    Book   Writing   Next  
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  • Stephen King is open about the fact that he continues to learn the craft, and if King hasn't got it figured out yet, what the hell hope have the rest of us got?

    Kings   Crafts   Facts  
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  • No matter how long you spend at creation, you're always a student.

    Long   Matter   Students  
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  • He had been someone before. That person had been the result of a lifetime of choices, good and bad. And like it or not, he was drawing closer to that identity now. Not the freedom of infinite variety, but the tyranny of a decision made, a path walked, a life lived. What if he didn't like the view

    Views   Drawing   Choices  
    Marcus Sakey (2012). “The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes”, p.148, Random House
  • 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.

    Beer   People   Voting  
  • Trying to analyze a situation without enough data was like looking at a photograph of a ball in flight and trying to gauge its direction. Is it going up, down, sideways? Is it about to collide with a baseball bat? Is it moving at all, or is something on the blind side holding it in place? A single frame didn't mean a thing. Patterns were based on data. With enough datapoints, you could predict just about anything.

    Baseball   Moving   Mean  
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