Amazon Quote by Whit Stillman

I have to feel something emotionally on the story to be able to write for it. I turn things down if I don't feel…

— Howard Shore

I try to tell a story that's good enough to win the right to integrate eternal themes into it. If it's poorly written or…

— Randy Alcorn

I do better just letting the stories develop. I don't outline very well, and I can't follow it if I do. Once I've outlined…

— Joe R. Lansdale

I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.

— Flannery O'Connor

I do find it challenging to leave stuff out. Two of my models for novel-writing are 'The Great Gatsby' and 'As I Lay Dying,'…

— Amy Bloom

If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.

— Tom Wilkinson

I always let the characters guide the stories. They really let me know what they want to say and what action they want to…

— Ellen Schreiber

I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.

— J. M. Coetzee

When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go. You can't…

— Geraldine Brooks

I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get people to pay…

— David Macaulay

I look at the plotline and let my co-author basically write the book; first draft. Then they give it to me, and I totally…

— Janet Evanovich

My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.

— Arthur Smith