Book Quote by Chris Abani

The story [for the western genre] is everything. Whether it's a book or a screenplay, the story drives everything. And if you just go…

— Clint Eastwood

The way you speak of the characters in your story shows what you think of the values of conservatives‚ or evolution, for example. It…

— Philip Pullman

Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the…

— Hugh Jackman

Characters have changed my mind about some very fundamental moral issues, and that's the real satisfaction in the way I write - the ultimate…

— Karen Traviss

The stories I love the most are where the author has a lot of empathy for everyone. The author loves their characters and takes…

— Molly Antopol

I like for there to be a moral, for the character to have gotten something out of the experience.

— Jeremy London

The truth is, everything ultimately comes down to the relationship between the reader and the writer and the characters. Does or does not a…

— Whitley Strieber

“Stories don’t teach us to be good; it isn’t as simple as that. They show us what it feels like to be good, or…

— Philip Pullman

My books, I will say one thing - they all have a driving narrative, and you have to turn the pages, and the way…

— Elin Hilderbrand

In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them, and its up to the audience to…

— Aden Young

Stories can bring alive the moral universe in a very vivid, useful, engaging way.

— Morris Gleitzman

What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect.

— Aleksandar Hemon