Details Quote by Ingmar Bergman

I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.

— Flannery O'Connor

I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's a piece…

— Paul Haggis

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

Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.

— Eudora Welty

I don't beat at the details, but I do always keep in mind that anything that isn't A) moving the story forward or B)…

— Jim Shepard

What I do with the story itself varies of course, but what I want to do is to present the world so that the…

— Karin Tidbeck

Everyone has a story to tell. All you have to do is write it. But it's not that easy.

— Frank McCourt

Before I start writing, before I have an idea of where and when the story happens, I research it thoroughly.

— Isabel Allende

There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg.…

— Ernest Hemingway

Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later,…

— Michael Ondaatje

I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand…

— Orson Scott Card

I had a lot of great lakes of ignorance that I was up against, I would write what I knew in almost like islands…

— Rebecca Miller