Beats Quote by Mary J. Miller

If you're trying to convey a crucial emotional truth, you have to be in total control of the emotional pacing of the story, and…

— Kevin Keck

I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know…

— Alan Dean Foster

The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream. A story should break the reader's heart.

— Susan Sontag

I don't particularly like the idea that there's an arc to the story and that therefore in this scene you have to convey this…

— Michael Winterbottom

If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and are unable…

— Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien

I've had to try and find a way over the years of writing narratively that doesn't really require you to sit down and work…

— Nick Cave

You just have to learn to get really good at choosing your moments and making sure that your story isn't overwhelmed by the effects,…

— J.H. Wyman

I never start a section of the story without knowing how it will end. I also consciously try to shape the story as though…

— Dave Barry

I have to feel something emotionally on the story to be able to write for it. I turn things down if I don't feel…

— Howard Shore

I try not to repeat a story. I try not to repeat an emotion. I want it to be all sort of new for…

— Michael Patrick King

There are things the story must have or else look incomplete. And these will almost automatically present themselves. When they don't, you are in…

— Chinua Achebe

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