Connections Quote by Michael Morpurgo

And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up…

— Norton Juster

Usually, I have a lot of acquaintance with the story before I start writing it. When I didn't have regular time to give to…

— Alice Munro

I'm not a writer, inherently. Most of the writers I've met have stories they need to tell. I don't have that. I'm an interpreter.…

— Mark Strong

When you're a writer, there is a selflessness that has to happen; you have to have equity with how you treat each of the…

— Natasha Rothwell

When I'm writing in my bedroom, in a bar, at my kitchen table or wherever, I'm conjuring it all up on the page. That's…

— Quentin Tarantino

Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them…

— Philipp Meyer

I think many people have wonderful stories inside them and the talent to tell those stories. But the writing life, with its isolation and…

— Ellen Ullman

I don't really decide what the core of the story is before I write. I write to figure out what the story is. And…

— Greta Gerwig

I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the…

— Al Yankovic

I think about my audience when I write, to some extent. Thinking of writing for young adults, I try to keep the stories moving,…

— William Sleator

I think that in general - well, at least it's true for me - you tend to put something of yourself into the story…

— Sam Lake

I suppose everybody does get attached to characters whether in movies or in stories, but I think that's part of the reason you get…

— Louis Menand