You have to do what the story demands, but inside of those…

I don't have a style. I just try to write what the story demands.

— Helen Oyeyemi

Every story has its demands.

— Clint Eastwood

I come at it from a different angle of attack with each novel, searching for the technological texture the story demands. There isn't a…

— Alastair Reynolds

I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language.

— Kate DiCamillo

We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to…

— Bradley Whitford

But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment…

— Charles Nodier

I dont have a style. I just try to write what the story demands.

— Helen Oyeyemi

Depending on the story, I don't feel that the music is disappearing. I feel if the story demands songs, they'll have songs. If it…

— Richard Sherman

For narrative games, and also for the sake of the medium, we have to treat performance that way, as actors. You have to have…

— Ashly Burch

Style is the outcome of constraint.

— Andre Maurois

Since the nations founding, African Americans repeatedly have been controlled through institutions such as slavery and Jim Crow, which appear to die but then…

— Michelle Alexander

To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others…

— Noam Chomsky

The only reason why I tend to pass on a movie is either I don't think I'm right for the material and can't play…

— Nicolas Cage

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a…

— Richard Powers