Complicated Quote by Chris Van Allsburg

Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.

— Dorianne Laux

“Every good story starts with a simple premise. This one begins with the notion of survival. The determination to live is both instinctive and…

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

Canada was built around a very simple premise. A promise that you can work hard and succeed and build a future for yourselves and…

— Justin Trudeau

I'm interested in working with groups of actors to tell complicated stories about what's happening to people, and that's because I came out of…

— John Wells

If you're going to read minds, start with a simple one.

— Richard Peck

Start with something simple and small, then expand over time. If people call it a 'toy' you're definitely onto something.

— Aaron Levie

As is commonly said, ‘to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.’

— Haile Selassie

I would like to do more millennial, Latina, complicated stories.

— Tanya Saracho

If you don't spend the time you need on developing characters and finding stories, complicated stories, the audience gets tired because they think they're…

— Kathleen Kennedy

“She’d never spent entire days lying on her bed reading, entire nights making up complicated stories in her head. She’d not dreamed of willing…

— Joanna Rakoff

The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be…

— Ronald Reagan

But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

— Steve Coogan

Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

— Barack Obama

“It’s a simple premise: follow the leads that arise from contact with the work itself, and your technical, emotional and intellectual pathway becomes clear.”

— David Bayles

Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.

— Edward P. Jones