Choices Quote by Tom Hanks

The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the…

— Anonymous

The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.

— Theodore Sturgeon

Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.

— Richard Denney

I have to trust that if a story is strong, it can find its readership, and good editors can steer me well.

— Julie Berry

I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we're not writing journalism when we're…

— Edward Hirsch

I think most people aren't really privy to how stories are developed and what stories are - make it to the front page or…

— Sean Spicer

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.

— Stephen Ambrose

In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods.

— Roger Ebert

It is up to the directors to take risks in telling a story and if they want to experiment, they should work with the…

— Thiagarajan Kumararaja

People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material…

— Terry Brooks

Most aspiring screenwriters simply don't spend enough time choosing their concept. It's by far the most common mistake I see in spec scripts. The…

— Terry Rossio