Attention Quote by Elizabeth Strout

The thing that I'm trying to accomplish is to tell the stories and my feelings in ways that are relatable. But at the same…

— Amanda Shires

As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find…

— Walter Dean Myers

All my stories are mainly slice-of-life and rooted to real issues and situations that I have experienced myself.

— Shoojit Sircar

You have to be driven by the stories that you want to tell. You can't simply be responding, or there won't be any real…

— David Shore

It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative…

— Harry Mathews

If you tell the story emotionally in a truthful way, then you start naturally looking at the landscape and thinking "Wow, we have to…

— Viggo Mortensen

I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me - you kind of formulate things in your mind…

— Imtiaz Ali

I think my narrative is actually pretty interesting if I step back from it and don't engage too much in it, personally or emotionally.

— Karyn Kusama

I've just found the stories of the people I'm talking to much more interesting than my reactions to them.

— Molly Crabapple

I have to feel something emotionally on the story to be able to write for it. I turn things down if I don't feel…

— Howard Shore

My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am…

— William Trevor

I try to do the story the way I feel the story should be done, and how that folds into whatever larger sorts of…

— David Milch