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The shows I've been working on, especially 'Parenthood' and 'Friday Night Lights,' I think are completely character-driven stories. I think, for most writers, that's…

— Jason Katims

I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer can best…

— Damien Chazelle

I don't understand how our story can be so bonkers, but 'Captain Marvel' isn't. A lot of the ideas in 'The OA' that seem…

— Zal Batmanglij

One of the problems I have with many writers is their stories are all somewhat similar. They might be very good, but they're always…

— T.C. Boyle

People have to respond to the characters and respond to the situations that they're in. That said, it still has to be a compelling…

— Adam Rayner

If the writers all come from the same backgrounds, you are going to get the same sorts of characters. Get a broader variety of…

— Sophie Okonedo

One of the things that I have learned since trying to bring in an interesting story in under 28 pages is that we already…

— Bill Williams

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

— L. Sprague de Camp

Shooting a new story out of order every week is a fundamentally different beast than stage work, where you tell the same story every…

— Hale Appleman

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people…

— Orson Scott Card

“Pilot scripts are particularly difficult to write because you have to introduce all the characters without it feeling like a series of introductions. You…

— Tina Fey

There are so many versions of every story because every storyteller tells the story differently.

— Tomm Moore