Action Quote by Larry Brooks

Concentrate your narrative energy on the point of change. This is especially important for historical fiction. When your character is new to a place,…

— Hilary Mantel

A key goal for an author of history is to persuade his or her readers to forget what they know and to relive the…

— Del Quentin Wilber

Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next.

— David Mamet

“In the writer's mind, even a backstory has a backstory.”

— Terry a O'Neal

“In the writers mind, even a backstory has a backstory.”

— Terry a O'Neal

As a writer, you understand how hard it is to build up backstory for characters, so you can have impactful moments. You have to…

— Cory Barlog

Detailing and backstories are so important; only they draw you into the life of a character.

— Richa Pallod

I try to construct some kind of backstory for my character so that I have an idea of the life of that character -…

— Carol Kane

A little story is supported by a lot of untold backstory. What they get is more than what they see.

— Karen Lord

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

Many writers struggle with exposition in their novels. Often they heap it on in large chunks of straight narrative. Back story – what happens…

— James Scott Bell

The careful choice of words, the scrubbing of language, the calculated images we presented to the external audiences - those were all major parts…

— Dave Abrams