About Quote by Vidya Balan

There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's…

— Rachel Cusk

The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from, and…

— Taiye Selasi

Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible.…

— Douglas Coupland

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.

— Robert McKee

Ideas for stories come in really different terms and really different ways for me. Sometimes they're from books, sometimes they're just kind of out…

— Brian Evenson

Anyone with an imagination can write about the day-to-day experiences of someone he or she is not.

— Alice Mattison

To write a story is to create a world of your own.

— Gza

Every creative act is an act of hypocrisy and violence. You may have to think about it for a while, but I am sure…

— Mary Ruefle

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay…

— Hilary Mantel

Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate…

— Lynne Truss

I just want to tell stories that are meaningful and have inspiration to them; people can watch it and take away something or maybe…

— Dee Rees

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives…

— Chaim Potok