Book Quote by Clint Eastwood

The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence…

— Ira Glass

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

Unlike other books or TV shows or sometimes life, my narrative worlds are stripped of implicit moral centers. There is only what you bring.…

— Chris Abani

I really am just trying to tell stories. But stories are often grounded in larger events and themes. They don't have to be -…

— Neal Stephenson

“Fiction is usually seen as escapist entertainment...But it's hard to reconcile the escapist theory of fiction with the deep patterns we find in the…

— Jonathan Gottschall

The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a…

— Dick Wolf

Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.

— Charles Stross

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

With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character.

— Olivia Munn

Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a…

— Tahir Shah

I think that in general - well, at least it's true for me - you tend to put something of yourself into the story…

— Sam Lake

I think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the world they…

— Salman Rushdie