Character Quote by Micah Perks

There's a kind of tension that if I'm getting a story right I can feel right away, and I don't feel that when I…

— Alice Munro

I like narrative, and I ultimately am in love with the men and women I write about, most of them.

— Kevin Starr

Usually when I put my focus on the pacing, the plot, the specific characterizations, - it's ironic - but then I actually increase my…

— Christopher Rice

Even if it's a thriller or a comedy, it's always a love story for me, and that's what I concentrate on, because the love…

— Sydney Pollack

I think the reason the stories are briskly paced, when they are, is that I like story. I like stories where things happen and…

— Nick Antosca

I'm way more in my head acting than I am when I'm writing. So there's a weird love/hate on both ends. But writing, as…

— Anders Holm

It's amazing how much the sense of telling a story with a beginning, middle, and end helps me to relax. I find that the…

— Mark Rylance

If it's a story that I feel is exciting and necessary, those are really motivating factors for me.

— Pauletta Pearson Washington

I find love stories satisfying when you can see the work - when you can really watch people find each other and fall in…

— Rainbow Rowell

I fall in love with certain stories. Those stories tend to be connected to my life some way - for instance, with my first…

— Daniel Coyle

And those moments that I find mind busting. Meaning like there's a word that I find in a weird place. I love the process…

— Glenn Close

When I create a story, I can make it however funny, sad, or happy I want it to be. And when I read, I…

— Marley Dias