End Quote by Greta Gerwig

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 think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the world they…

— Salman Rushdie

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

Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The…

— Ashwin Sanghi

I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then it is…

— Etgar Keret

I'm not a writer, inherently. Most of the writers I've met have stories they need to tell. I don't have that. I'm an interpreter.…

— Mark Strong

For someone who wants to write a story, they should go on thinking about the story. When it comes up to a level, where…

— Sudha Murty

The kind of roles one wants to do arent being written; the stories one wants to tell are few and far between; and the…

— Tisca Chopra

No matter what kind of writing you do, it's always the details that make the story.

— Elizabeth Berg

To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's…

— George Saunders

I think you work on the roles that draw you in and the stories you want to tell.

— Matt Bomer

Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I…

— E. L. Konigsburg