Chaos Quote by Dennis Lehane

I think that, as a writer, while it's your job to construct stories, you have to navigate your way through them with your heart.

— Abi Morgan

I think many writers write because it's a convenient way to explain themselves to themselves. We take the chaos and the turmoil and the…

— Armistead Maupin

What you're normally doing as a writer is trying to find the narrative.

— Joan Didion

A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I feel like handling a narrative in fiction is a wonderful way to teach stories that then open a pathway to reality and understanding.

— Amy Landecker

Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in what you're…

— Bob Shacochis

I feel like there's already a written narrative going on everywhere. All the different situations and realities you're in, like words floating by. It's…

— Bill Callahan

Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane

— Hope Edelman

I've always wanted to be a novelist, so I just try to write really great narrative.

— Peter Heller

I think many people have wonderful stories inside them and the talent to tell those stories. But the writing life, with its isolation and…

— Ellen Ullman

Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them…

— Philipp Meyer

I can't be bothered with narrative. It takes too long for me to try to think of it.

— Fred Armisen