Fit Quote by Tom Herman

I never look at twists as a way to trick the audience. Obviously, I think a good story has surprises and unexpected turns, and…

— Sam Esmail

Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks.

— Ben Marcus

Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take…

— Damon Lindelof

That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?

— Yann Martel

People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.

— Terry Pratchett

There is no one-size-fits-all narrative; everyone's path winds in different ways.

— Sarah McBride

When you're telling taut, tight storytelling that has any kind of built-in plot twist elements, you tend to want to stack everything up on…

— Julie Plec

All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are…

— Nina Bawden

You get a lot of narrative energy from people who make really big mistakes, who act against their best interests, who do things that…

— Kelly Link

You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.

— Ian Mcewan

I wish people were willing to dig a little deeper than the surface elements of a premise before tossing one story in with another.

— Isaac Marion

There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional.

— Howard Jacobson