Driven Quote by Jean M. Auel

From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it.

— Jean M. Auel

“Especially the first one I thought it explained their relationship. At several points at the beginning of the story I wondered how Fitch was…

— Janet Fitch

I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different -…

— Jean M. Auel

I'm probably more character-driven than plot-driven. It's rare for me to attach myself to an idea for a story.

— Steven Soderbergh

The editor, Stephen Segal, actually called me with the idea of creating an accordion book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"], and asked if…

— Theodora Goss

“One cannot judge in advance whether or not the idea of the story is worthwhile because until one has finished writing the story one…

— John Gardner

Once I have the idea for a story. I start collecting all kinds of helpful information and storing it in three-ring notebooks. For example,…

— Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

The ideas always have to be in service of the story. And that's what Scott and the writers did - they weren't trying to…

— Adam Frank

When you make movies, you have to be preoccupied with the social problems, otherwise there is no point in making a movie. To have…

— Bruno Dumont

At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

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

— Isabel Allende

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a…

— Brian Selznick