Crafts Quote by Chris Offutt Download Open image “The secret is to start a story near the ending.” — Chris Offutt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crafts Inspirational Secret Stories
I try to weave a secret into each plot. It's the thread that holds the rest of the story fabric together. In fact, it's the reason for the story. I hint at the secret early on. Immediately I want the reader to get the feeling that something here isn't quite right. It helps maintain the suspense if a puzzling element… — Sandra Brown Copy Share
I always know more about the ending, even the aftermath to the ending, than I know about the beginning. And so there's a construction… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Once you know the end of the story, every part of the story contains that end, and is only a way of reaching it. — Leah Stewart Copy Share Image
It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak. — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
When the ending finally comes to me, I often have to backtrack and make the beginning point towards that ending. Other times, I know… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
I usually have a general idea of where the story is going, but I try to avoid planning in too much detail. The best… — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. ... Of course, it rarely ends that way. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“Reading wasn't an attempt to educate myself. It was my chief escape from a world that, although gorgeous in landscape and rich with mountain… — Chris Offutt Copy Share Image
“The state called it recidivism, but as the old cons said, Baker was doing life on the installment plan.” — Chris Offutt Copy Share Image
I'd never really found a place in the outside world, but had stayed away too long to fit in at home. — Chris Offutt Copy Share Image
“Vaughn nodded. Lije steaded himself and looked into the woods. "Never could abide no roof." "Ours ain't the best," Vaughn said. "Leaks come spring."… — Chris Offutt Copy Share Image
“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless… — Chris Offutt Copy Share Image
“If you've used adverbs, look at them carefully. Adverbs are the weakest words; verbs are the strongest. Many, many times I've found that I… — Chris Offutt Copy Share Image
She spent hours drawing on her own, trying to perfect her craft. And when she got into music, she had that same diligence in… — Laura Joplin Copy Share Image
All My Children taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! It is a good way to start… — Eva LaRue Copy Share Image
Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending, although I… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are,… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
I got Michael Caine's book, Acting In Film, and I read it on the plane, desperately trying to glean information from him about how… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
One of the things about what . . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken before you… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I come from… — Mickey Rooney Copy Share Image
All the craft skills that I have, I feel like I developed and honed in drama school. It's the most important thing for me. — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival… — Janice Y. K. Lee Copy Share Image
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