Building Quote by J. J. Abrams

Don't put anything into a story that does not reveal character or advance the action.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Some stories doesn't need to be written, circumstances automatically narrates the scenes behind it.

— Sushan

The moment you start dictating content/themes/story vs. allowing the player to be a participant in the story and carve their own path, you're doing…

— Chris Avellone

Any carefully planned thing destroys the creativity. You can't think your way through a story; you have to live it. So, you don't build…

— Ray Bradbury

If somebody is in a story, they need to be there for a reason, and not just to set up somebody else's story.

— Joss Whedon

When you're putting together a story, sometimes you just have to skip over the boring bits.

— Laurie R. King

It's not always to the benefit of the story to have it so preordained.

— Daniel Woodrell

You won't have a story unless you have conflict, which means if there's no conflict in a situation, people look for a way to…

— Diana Gabaldon

Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the…

— Hugh Jackman

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

— Steve Buscemi

You don't write the kitchen scene just because you're eager to do it that day and you're avoiding something else. I think it has…

— T.C. Boyle

For narrative games, and also for the sake of the medium, we have to treat performance that way, as actors. You have to have…

— Ashly Burch