Julianna Baggott Quote

As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with dif...
ERIC JEROME DICKEY

This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS

Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY

Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a sto...
ASHWIN SANGHI

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and charact...
ERIC BROWN

Just don’t write like a self -hating Jew,” my father is whispering into my ear.
GARY SHTEYNGART

If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people ...
ORHAN PAMUK

People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that havi...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a st...
STEVEN MOFFAT

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA

I wanted to write a novel where the meaning is in the story and characters and the subliminal, in th...
FRANK PERETTI

The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as s...
VIKRAM SETH

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters a...
ERNEST GAINES

I'm here!" I said..."I'm read to go home!" As if they couldn't see me. As if I couldn't remember wha...
CAROLYN TURGEON

I was above all drawn to the opportunity to intimately portray female characters. Up until then my f...
DANIS TANOVIC

When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER

My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting character...
HAROLD RAMIS

One of my main problems as far as the public is concerned is that I've always been interested in too...
COLIN WILSON

Well, it developed into something very different than we thought it was going to be. Initially we sa...
DWAYNE MCDUFFIE

Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi...
DEYTH BANGER

I think if you make good, interesting content with compelling story lines and good characters, peopl...
FREDDIE WONG

My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story o...
BLACK ELK

Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO

There are very few works of fiction that take you inside the heads of all characters. I tell my writ...
JULIA GLASS

A black woman making art is a disruptive act. Every story that I tell as a woman is a political act,...
AVA DUVERNAY

The machine demanded access codes. As he entered the first, a faint whispering sound startled him, c...
CHRISTINA ENGELA

Settings are obviously important - and as a writer, you have to respect what was real at the time of...
JOAN LINGARD

They're as responsible as if they tied the sheet around his neck, as if they whispered into his ear ...
JAKADA IMANI

And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different...
CRAIG GROESCHEL

My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our g...
JIM EVANS

Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I wr...
E. L. KONIGSBURG

The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as...
STEWART O'NAN

As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story i...
PAWAN MISHRA

We cut a few lines that we were doing that seemed to repeat themselves. But the writer is around a l...
ROBBIE COLTRANE

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doe...
TIM VINE

Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS...

When I was writing my first novel, 'Where the Line Bleeds,' which had young black men as its...
JESMYN WARD

As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

Objective truth is difficult to come by, and even if you have it, what you can pass on to the next p...
DANIEL ABRAHAM

Survival is the main objective. There are going to be some awful days, I know that from my backgroun...
DAVID MILLAR

Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE

There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES

Perhaps my gift to you will be as simple as a single word, whispered into your ear by one of your se...
DEXTER PALMER

You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want...
CRAIG GROESCHEL

In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN

I'd hire the devil himself as a writer if he gave me a good story.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN

Interactive storytelling emphasizes a personal connection with the characters. It is a powerful tool...
DAVE MORRIS

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to ...
ERIC BROWN

The principle I always go on in writing a novel is to think of the characters in terms of actors in ...
P.G. WODEHOUSE

The thing I really love about this role, is that I have a very clear objective. I know my objective ...
JAMES MARSTERS

It took me a long time to understand the relationship between ideas and between objective facts. But...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

All the writing elements are the same. You need to tell a good story... You've got good characte...
SUZANNE COLLINS

As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
ALBERT J. NOCK

It is a resignation that has one objective and that objective is to let the Bolivian people know tha...
CARLOS MESA

We must remember that there’s more than one story and plot in every novel. There are at least as m...
WALTER MOSLEY

My readers have to work with me to create the experience. They have to bring their imaginations to t...
J.K. ROWLING

As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.
NANCY KRESS

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowher...
IAN HUNTER

As I dictate, other characters come in and the story begins to form, and I really talk the story,
SIDNEY SHELDON

To begin with, I want to tell a good story, a story that people will listen to and that they'll ...
JOSEPH BRUCHAC

To sing a song is like whispering to a child's ear. It is an art heavily relying on improvisatio...
ANDREA BOCELLI

I think good art should always be entertaining, or at least give pleasure of some sort. And my chief...
KENNETH OPPEL

A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't te...
JOHN STEINBECK

The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK

It's not the college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.
POLLY ADLER

Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW

I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK

I know [my corn plants] intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK

My main objective is to be professional but to kill him [Lennox Lewis].
MIKE TYSON

Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

We didn't tell the story of a cancer patient. This movie is about the run and the great thing that h...
SHAWN ASHMORE

The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there prima...
SALMAN RUSHDIE

Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA

If a call came in, I wanted to be damned sure she was there to take it. My main objective was to get...
ALLAN RADEL

Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historic...
EDWARD RUTHERFURD

In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists ...
RAY BRADBURY

If you must tell a story, tell it from the start; not where it bends into the underwood
MATTHIAS PANTALEON

I make a rod for my own back because people see my novels as quasi documentaries. But it is never hi...
CHRISTOPHER KOCH

I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL

Of course this is me revisiting my own past, going into the wilderness, telling a story, perhaps not...
WERNER HERZOG

Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER

To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS...

The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI

If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS...

i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL

Sex joins two people spiritually and emotionally as well as physically. This is its purpose-to bond ...
CRAIG GROESCHEL

My mom worked as a pharmacist, but she is one of the best storytellers I know. My sister is a gospel...
TUNDE ADEBIMPE

He's a great writer, but he's also the first writer-celebrity. His story as an expatriate and as an ...
JAMES CARROLL

A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his ...
SOURCE UNKNOWN

Read whatever book you lay your hands on if you can, for every writer has a story to tell
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

My main concern now is that most people who fish with 'crabs' will not take the time to tell a rusty...
BILL ANDERSON

There are two sides to me. One is the writer. That's a savage person who looks at everything as ...
WALTER KIRN

There is a natural progression to 'Lost,' and as the story goes forward, it's going to c...
CARLTON CUSE

My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and ge...
PATRICK CARMAN

No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think h...
ZANE GREY

He kissed the corner of her lips before whispering by her ear, “And that was just my hand, love.
MICHELLE M. PILLOW

If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you'r...
IRA GLASS

The journalism, I was a financial journalist - it's very good training as a writer. You have to ...
PAULA HAWKINS

As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.

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As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.

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