Benefit Quote by Daniel Woodrell

It's more important to get the story correct than to get it first.

— Ed Henry

So many stories are determined before they start.

— Lionel Shriver

It's really, always, the story and the characters that come first, and the other things are kind of dealt with in time or, in…

— Pete Docter

The pressures to get the story first, if wrong, are greater sometimes than the pressures to get the story right, if late.

— Alastair Campbell

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

— Tobias Wolff

Sometimes you're forced to do the cover before the story is done.

— Neal Adams

Personally, I think that the story is all-important; everything else comes later. But if there's any other way to ensure the betterment of the…

— Rishi Kapoor

Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no…

— J. J. Abrams

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Some stories doesn't need to be written, circumstances automatically narrates the scenes behind it.

— Sushan

If somebody is in a story, they need to be there for a reason, and not just to set up somebody else's story.

— Joss Whedon

I think everything is pretty well preordained - even your mistakes.

— Mel Gibson