Bored Quote by Ben Lerner

I think my narrative is actually pretty interesting if I step back from it and don't engage too much in it, personally or emotionally.

— Karyn Kusama

I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.

— Maggie Stiefvater

You gotta tell the story the way that it happened to you and the way you experienced it.

— Taylor Swift

When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back…

— Charlie Kaufman

When you're a writer and something difficult happens to you, one of the things involved in that is this emergence of narrative potential. And…

— Leslie Jamison

I, as a person, make anything a narrative experience because I experience things linearly. The biggest question for me, is will I go through…

— Saschka Unseld

You immerse yourself in it until you are part of the story. That's the only way I know how to work.

— Robert Graysmith

I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I’m telling a story is…

— Anonymous

I think my first general rule is that most of my experiences are not that interesting. It's usually other people's experiences. It's not that…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted…

— Alice Sebold

When I begin to write a story, I usually know how things will end. It's the journey toward that point I must discover. The…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

It's amazing how much the sense of telling a story with a beginning, middle, and end helps me to relax. I find that the…

— Mark Rylance