I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
Harold RamisRead
My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.
Interpretation
A good narrative relies on engaging characters and storytelling.
Harold Ramis emphasizes the importance of compelling characters and a well-crafted story in creating a successful structure, suggesting that without these elements, any framework or methodology for storytelling will ultimately fall flat. This insight highlights how the essence of a story is rooted in the people within it and the narrative they inhabit.
In practice
This quote can be used during a creative writing workshop to emphasize the importance of character development.
I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.
It seems that, culturally, young people function more in groups. They know each other through digital media. All the young comedy people who work in TV are really used to working at the table with lots of writers around. They're comfortable in the group; they don't assert their own egos over everyone else.
My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.
Find the most talented person in the room and if it's not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. try to be helpful.
The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
No movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad.
Like every art form, there are jealousies and angers and competitiveness in magic. But there's camaraderie among magicians, whether you perform it for a living or you're an enthusiast.
There she weaves by night and day, A magic web with colors gay. She has heard a whisper say, A curse is on her if she stay, To look down to Camelot. She knows not what the curse may be, And so she weaveth steadily, And little other care hath she, The Lady of Shalott.
Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not the same as our own and of which, without art, the landscapes would remain as unknown to us as those that may exist on the moon.
I want a storm to come and flood us into a song that no one wrote.
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