Attention Quote by Ray Bradbury

Try not to become disappointed if someone doesn't like a story you've written. Stick up for your ideas, but listen to what other people…

— Margaret Mahy

The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence…

— Ira Glass

You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't.

— Christopher Moore

When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness,…

— Margaret Atwood

For someone who wants to write a story, they should go on thinking about the story. When it comes up to a level, where…

— Sudha Murty

Let the story lead you. If the story needs to be dark, let it go dark. If it's a sweet, good-for-the-world story, that's what…

— Peter Hedges

If you tell the story emotionally in a truthful way, then you start naturally looking at the landscape and thinking "Wow, we have to…

— Viggo Mortensen

I'll find something in what I read that snags my imagination in emotional terms; it resonates with me for reasons more complicated than just…

— Jim Shepard

Perhaps adding a line or two of dialogue to try to better capture an emotion. But I've found that if the story isn't there…

— Mary J. Miller

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The…

— Nigel Kneale

I have to feel something emotionally on the story to be able to write for it. I turn things down if I don't feel…

— Howard Shore

The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it's somebody that…

— David Simon