Depends Quote by Tony Grisoni

Beginning authors often get in their own way … They forget that they’ve been telling stories since they could talk. … The important thing…

— Cynthia Leitich Smith

Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.

— Billy Bob Thornton

Everyone's always telling themselves stories about their lives, writers or not.

— Sheila Heti

Whether it's theatre or TV or film, you're hoping you're going to bump into a writer that's got a bit of honour in him,…

— Liam Cunningham

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

— Flannery O'Connor

That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the…

— James Frey

That's the moment you look for as a writer, when the characters start telling you what they are doing rather than you telling them.

— Mike Bartlett

You're always looking for some new way to tell the same story, but it's how they get to the happy end that is the…

— Lisa Kleypas

Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories...The memory of first putting a story into words will always…

— Elena Ferrante

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too…

— Jessica Cutler

I guess it's easier to get things made when you know the story you want to tell, you know the characters you want to…

— Kate Mara

What writers do is they tell their own story constantly through other people's stories. They imagine other people, and those other people are carrying…

— Tobias Wolff