Attention Quote by Miguel Ferrer

There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail.

— Zadie Smith

It's my opinion that if you're trying to tell a realistic story that centers around realistic characters, you can't help but touch on important…

— Patrick Rothfuss

The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I don't beat at the details, but I do always keep in mind that anything that isn't A) moving the story forward or B)…

— Jim Shepard

Whatever the case, oftentimes, for a story to feel complete to me, I need more than one point of view.

— Sabaa Tahir

Subject matter that is not bound to reality offers more opportunity to write a unique story and cinematically present it in very unique ways.

— Richard King

Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the…

— Zoe Kravitz

I try not to articulate ideas in the film once I've arrived on the plot and the characters. I believe that if I focus…

— Ira Sachs

There are a lot of limitations so you have to ultimately focus on what you think the most important storyline is.

— Joseph Kosinski

The best part of writing is thinking about the story. And then everything else takes a lot of discipline.

— Kareem Mortimer

The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character.

— Nora Roberts

You can't take a story and just stretch it out - that does not a novel make.

— David Means