Beneath the surface Quote by Charlie Jane Anders

I'm always talking to the writers because I find it so fascinating, how they're able to go to these different levels with the different…

— Taraji P. Henson

Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.

— George Lucas

Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton. It is how you 'flesh out…

— Caroline Lawrence

The more layers a story has, the better it is for the audience.

— Nana Patekar

There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them…

— Walter Kirn

Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible.…

— Douglas Coupland

I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying…

— Flannery O'Connor

I always thought storytelling was like juggling [...] You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down,…

— Salman Rushdie

Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative,…

— Anne Enright

All storytelling is kind of that - there's a bit of text that you put pressure on that spits out some desire that a…

— George Saunders

Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.

— D. J. MacHale