Action Quote by David Leitch

Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think you’re at the end of the book, and…

— Deb Caletti

You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it,…

— Iain Banks

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too…

— Jessica Cutler

Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.

— Ann Voskamp

The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more…

— Dave Eggers

I think it is important that you care about the characters, and you are not just waiting for the next action sequence but have…

— Shawn Ashmore

There are things the story must have or else look incomplete. And these will almost automatically present themselves. When they don't, you are in…

— Chinua Achebe

With any character you portray, you can never play the end in the beginning. You have to pursue and attack your intention as if…

— Sterling K. Brown

I just like a good story. I want the story to be good and I want the character to be different than the last…

— Garret Dillahunt

There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be.…

— Dan Millman

Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense.

— Diana Krall