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Episode 448: Robert McKee

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Aarand With Robert McKee

The mind is a story making machine, a story taking in machine. It converts reality to story form and it stores it in memory in exactly the same part of the brain where it stores all the fictual experiences it has. And so everyin o every novel you've ever read, plus all the experiences of your life, have all gone to the same location in your brain where that story form imbeds them. That would apply equally to non fiction as much as fiction.

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