Character Quote by Cody Lundin

The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.

— C. S. Lewis

I got a story, ain't no moral, I let the bad guy win every now and then.

— Billy Preston

Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

— Ernest Hemingway

Sometimes I get the story wrong, or it's the wrong story, and then things don't work.

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

And the moral of the story is that you don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. And the second moral of…

— John Green

In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should…

— Betty Smith

I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story,…

— Tom T. Hall

My responsibility is to get the story right. I can't predict or be concerned with the consequences.

— Tom Verducci

The worst thing you can try to do is to steer the story once it gets going. You just kind of follow along and…

— Stephen King

You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain.

— Lauren Graham

I'm not a natural researcher, and I don't get bogged down in it, but I think if you get it right in the first…

— Sarah Pinborough

“I look back at this moment sometimes, the moment I accepted this job, and I have to wonder what kind of decision it really…

— Catherine Lacey