Character Quote by Matt Nix

“If someone tells you what a story is about, they are probably right. If they tell you that that is all a story is…

— Neil Gaiman

I could never be the kind of writer who went to the set of the movie and fussed and fretted about, 'Oh, that dialogue's…

— Alan Moore

“If your hero's backstory is more interesting than their present story, you're writing the wrong book.”

— Kristen Kieffer

The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And…

— Bob Saget

Lexicon grabbed me with the opening lines, and never let go. An absolutely thrilling story, featuring an array of compelling characters in an eerily…

— Chris Pavone

“All the stories we tell ourselves are wrong.”

— J. Robert Lennon

A little bit of gratuitous violence in a well-thought-out story is fine.

— Ray Wise

When Brad [Pitt] responded [to Allied], suddenly what was impossible became possible, which was great. But along the way, whenever I told the story,…

— Steven Knight

Herein find fiction full of whimsy, wit, hurt, and terror. Wicked, as in wickedly funny, is in the mix, too, along with a prose…

— Christine Schutt

“Goodman, a friend of the Coens since he worked with them on their second movie, Raising Arizona, laughed about the scene where William Macy…

— Alex Belth

I was fascinated that everybody in the story thinks that they're in the right.

— Andrew McCarthy

It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.

— Alan Thicke