Built Quote by Steven Amsterdam Download Open image “A story is built on characters and reasons.” — Steven Amsterdam ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Built Character Reason Stories
A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
We have a writing process that's very much you try to create the character in a complicated way and then you let the story… — Aaron Ehasz Copy Share Image
Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is perturbing my… — Siegfried Lenz Copy Share Image
Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories. — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
“To write an excellent novel, make the outcome of the story matter to the reader through the evolving relationships between well-designed characters.” — Martin Sandforth Copy Share Image
You want to tell a great story. You want these characters to become part of people's lives. And then, hopefully, that generates discussion. — Todd Lieberman Copy Share Image
Everybody's in a situation; everybody has a story. It's about finding out why. — Maxine Peake Copy Share Image
A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood. — Marcus Sedgwick Copy Share Image
Whenever we've approached a story, it's always started with the character, and the idea of some character struggling with some part of himself. That's… — Anna Boden Copy Share Image
Being with a small publisher has been huge. They bat for me for everything. — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would. — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
You walk into someone's house and they're dying, or they've got a family member who is dying. Your needs are minor; you're there to… — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
I've always thought flight was fun and wanted to write about flight, and I knew a lot of househusbands who were having a really… — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
The better we are at accepting the limits of our world, the more easily we can embrace what we have. — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
I'm never going to write a whole paragraph describing what a living room looks like. — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
Nursing demands vigilance about people. The sights and smells that a patient offers, their movements and their offhand comments all contribute crucial information to… — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
I could imagine that a character could do almost anything at any time, and that was the freedom of the whole thing. But keeping… — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand. — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
Until I became a nurse, no one had ever asked me to sign a book contract. I had been writing for decades, read thousands… — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
So I concentrated on the rhythmic side of things, and therefore left a lot of holes. I didn't want to use big pad chords… — Midge Ure Copy Share Image
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Most startups are not just built for the person who is using them. When you do that, every now and then you get really… — Emmett Shear Copy Share Image
Call me the rap assassinator / rhymes rugged and built like Schwarzenegger — Raekwon Copy Share Image
Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
God and I have built an immense fire together. We keep each other happy and warm. — Hafez Copy Share Image
When we built Roomba, we explicitly designed it to not have a face. We didn't want to think it was cute; we wanted people… — Colin Angle Copy Share Image
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
