Architecture Quote by Harold Ramis

A structure is a bit like a story. People will go along with you - they see where you're going.

— Melvyn Bragg

I know I'm not great at structure and story.

— Jane Espenson

The only reason we find structure in stories is because it's there naturally in human interaction, and in the way that people tell stories.

— Lynda Barry

If you have a structure beforehand, you're sort of stuffing your story into a pre-assembled box. You don't want that to happen. What you…

— Colum McCann

I'm a big believer that the structure of stories should reflect the content of the story.

— Noah Hawley

Structure is, for me, the most fun challenge about writing novels.

— Heidi Julavits

Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters…

— Penelope Lively

You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it's the story that matters.

— James Dashner

I think structure is so deep in us. We put it in stories we tell our friends or in emails we write. We want…

— Greta Gerwig

I love the three-act theory. It works and works beautifully. But you don't necessarily have to structure a story that way: Cortazar and Borges…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I think all interesting characters have some kind of a complex.

— Pilou Asbaek

My stories are pretty simplistic, but the characters are always complex and always right, and that comes from the script and my research and…

— Tony Scott