About Quote by Alice Sebold

“Of course, the writer can impose control; It's just a really shitty idea. Writing controlled fiction is called "plotting." Buckling your seatbelt and letting…

— Stephen King

I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

We have a writing process that's very much you try to create the character in a complicated way and then you let the story…

— Aaron Ehasz

When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.

— Imtiaz Ali

I can't control what a reader takes from a story.

— Marjorie Liu

In every take, that you're not sure of what they're going to cut and paste together and what the arc or the purpose or…

— Shannyn Sossamon

My best writing has to do with an internal process that I'm working out unconsciously and put into my characters.

— Lyle Kessler

Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

— Ian Mcewan

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too…

— Jessica Cutler

I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.

— Steve Carell

I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters…

— A. S. Byatt

A story comes to you; it isn't like you choose it. You have no real control.

— Mary Downing Hahn