Asks Quote by Peter Jacobson

I'm not first and foremost interested in story and the what-happens, but I'm interested in who's telling it and how they're telling it and…

— Amy Hempel

I think that there's an awakening inside of me really honestly, and I honestly believe that the best work of my life is about…

— Forest Whitaker

I never know, when I start writing a story, what's going to happen, or how it will all get sorted out.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I pitched a storyline, and as far as I know it's been picked up. It's for the third and final episode I'm contracted to…

— Corin Nemec

I have no thoughs about it anymore its the same story with the same ending all the time nothing ever changes no reasons to…

— Gabrielle Spates

You get to crack the code of the play. You get to really pick at it and see, 'What is the story that we're…

— Phillipa Soo

I usually have a sense of where my characters are personally and ways in which they might transform throughout the novel. But I never…

— Lisa Lutz

Life is like a novel. You can guess what will happen on the next chapter, but you will not know until youre there.

— Anonymous

Usually the characters are where I start. Then I continually ask myself, 'What's the worst thing that could happen to this character?'

— Paul Haggis

The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative,…

— Patrick Marber

If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope.

— Ryan Gosling

If you let the plot be determined by what you feel is in the character's mind at that point, it may not turn out…

— Tom Stoppard