Ability Quote by Eric Kripke

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The…

— Nigel Kneale

I think that the way that I write stories is by instinct. You have some basic ideas - a character, or an image, or…

— Dan Chaon

I like the idea of building this wandering, epic narrative in a form that people don't expect epic narratives to appear.

— Lucas Neff

Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is perturbing my…

— Siegfried Lenz

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many…

— John Updike

I've always been a big believer that you can use the elements of storytelling to bring the reader along and to hopefully illuminate a…

— David Grann

Like most writers, I sit in a room and scribble a story and you don't have a connection with the people who take your…

— Michael Morpurgo

I want there to be hints of narrative everywhere in the image so that people can make up their own stories about them. But…

— Cindy Sherman

I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and then to…

— Khaled Hosseini

Everyone has a story, the air is full of stories. The creative process is mysterious, I don't know why it is that suddenly a…

— Isabel Allende

In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end. You have…

— Dan Jenkins

As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from…

— Anonymous