Approach Quote by Hunter S. Thompson

Make sure you're realistic about what you can do, but if you have a good lead with something, making the plunge into full-time writing…

— Ben Clymer

Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they…

— Paul Auster

I always say it takes as much preparation and thought to do a small part as a leading part. In some ways, leads are…

— John C. Reilly

It works better if your lead character is complex and interesting and not perfect.

— Michael Hirst

My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.

— Anita Desai

Writing the opening lines of a story is a bit like starting to ski at the steepest part of a hill. You must have…

— Marion Dane Bauer

The way I work is I'll basically become kind of fixated on a very stripped-down genre, like revenge or something like that, and just…

— Panos Cosmatos

Writing about real stuff that really concerned me brought out my craft. If you're writing a story about, 'Is Lois Lane gonna figure out…

— Dennis O'Neil

Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.

— Steve Buscemi

I like the story writing process. I usually use someone who has been trained for structure to take the story that I actually want,…

— Curtis Jackson

I usually start with an ending, then outline high points of things that happen, and kind of make up the rest as I go…

— Julie Kagawa

One path I've used a lot is to deeply and thoughtfully consider a trope or a tradition, and then set about taking it apart…

— Lidia Yuknavitch