Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump. – Etgar Keret
It’s about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it’s Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it’s going to be, ‘Storyteller.’ – Gary Vaynerchuk
I want to bring drawing back to the basics, make it about the pleasure that it can afford and remove the notion that it’s some kind of precious or difficult activity. It’s another way of telling a story. – Chris Riddell
I’m not one of these ‘the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me’ kind of writers. Wish it was like that. – Markus Zusak
You can’t help but reveal your bias, and you can’t but invest personally in any story that you tell. – Edward Zwick
‘Stargate’ has always had this empty hole. When we made the first one, we always intended on doing part two and three, and we were prevented for years. And our hope is that we can get another chance at ‘Stargate’ and tell the entire story we wanted to tell. – Dean Devlin
I don’t have a story about an epiphany in which I suddenly realised I wanted to be an actor. It was much more a case of the idea dawning on me gradually. – Elizabeth Debicki
Adapting a novel is not really about being faithful to every word and every moment the author has created. It’s more about that same story being filtered through somebody else’s sensibility. – Peter Jackson
A story begins and it always passes from the subjunctive to the declarative. And Italians don’t seem to care about making a fine distinction between that which is speculation and that which is fact. – Donna Leon
For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think ‘Vanity Fair’ is the right forum. – Dominick Dunne
The dirty little secret of foreign correspondents is that 90 per cent of it is showing up. If you can find a way to get there, the story, the reporting, it’s the easiest you’ll ever do. ‘Cause the drama’s everywhere. – Geraldine Brooks
But I can say what interests me about documentary is the fact that you don’t know how the story ends at the onset – that you are investigating, with a camera, and the story emerges as you go along. – Errol Morris
Apple, iTunes, and streaming services have made the single a more easy thing to access. What that’s done has made the album as a collection of songs almost meaningless. But an album that has a concept or story or reason to be an album, if anything, has more meaning now than it ever has. – Matt Bellamy
The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people – some well-known, most totally unknown – who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint on our orthography. – David Crystal
That’s always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about? – Nick Denton
You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story. – Duncan Jones
Once I got into college, I discovered literature – in particular, multicultural literature. I just started to understand the power of story and narrative, and you know, like anyone else, I kind of wanted to do it, too. – Matt de la Pena
We’re not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader’s own life ‘outside’ the story changes the story. – David Foster Wallace
It’s their story, and I got to be the guy in the back while they were in the foreground. – Geoffrey Rush
I’d have to say the whole experience in making The Neverending Story. I had an incredible time. – Noah Hathaway
Each of the ‘Toy Story’s are telling an emotional story, but they’re comedic. They’re so successful creatively in terms of the stories they’re telling. And they’re pretty grounded. – Nicholas Stoller
As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know. – Nancy Kress
Very often when a story really holds us, it gets pushed away because it’s too close for comfort. – Mike Nichols
I don’t have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out. – Michael Ondaatje
It’s harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters. – Michael Haneke
