Believe Quote by Philipp Meyer

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

What you're normally doing as a writer is trying to find the narrative.

— Joan Didion

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 think that, as a writer, while it's your job to construct stories, you have to navigate your way through them with your heart.

— Abi Morgan

Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The…

— Ashwin Sanghi

The kind of roles one wants to do arent being written; the stories one wants to tell are few and far between; and the…

— Tisca Chopra

That's the moment you look for as a writer, when the characters start telling you what they are doing rather than you telling them.

— Mike Bartlett

Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.

— Billy Bob Thornton

Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible.…

— Douglas Coupland

To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling…

— Deb Caletti

I think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the world they…

— Salman Rushdie

I've got a particular way of writing novels, and that carries over into the way I write comics and games, too. I'm a news…

— Karen Traviss