Ask Quote by Ken Follett

I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the…

— David Maraniss

“Don’t forget the most basic reason we read: to discover what happens next. Make certain your devotion to pretty sentences and flesh-and-blood characters and…

— Benjamin Percy

I never start with the story first, which is maybe obvious, because the narrative line of my films is really not that strong or…

— Jim Jarmusch

What's important is how the character drives the narrative.

— Tridha Choudhury

I look for the essence of a story and a human angle that I think audiences can relate to. I also look at how…

— Hrithik Roshan

My major contribution to the format was to suggest that I be able to step out of the plot and speak directly to the…

— George Burns

“Good storytelling lets the audience relive events in the present so they can understand the forces, choices, and emotions that led the character to…

— John Truby

The main thing is, you just want to have your place in history. You hope that people will look back on it in 15,…

— Clint Eastwood

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

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

— Alan Rickman

The great thing about really heightened historical dramas is that they can convey much larger themes.

— Cynthia Addai-Robinson

When you tell a story, there are imperatives of structure, of style, of pacing and all of this, that are there simply because you…

— H. W. Brands