Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre. – Sarah Pinborough
As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories. – Talulah Riley
Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order. – Tobias Wolff
I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pieces. – Spike Lee
I guess I would say that most of what I’ve learned about storytelling derives from novels and short stories. I cannot think of a novel or story, or a novelist or story writer, who thinks in terms of three-act structure. – Tom Bissell
But here’s my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don’t wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it early. – Susan Estrich
In a way, perhaps, there’s an advantage of being on the edge of something and looking in as the observer, because as the filmmaker, you’re the storyteller, and you’re pulling out this universal story. – Sarah Gavron
Horror fans are very passionate people, and they are very much into the ‘Saw’ thing. So they watch sometimes as carefully as the writers and producers do, in terms of the way the story plays out. – Tobin Bell
With Groo, I try to do one story every book. Sometimes the stories are better if they go a little longer, and I choose to do it in four issues. – Sergio Aragones
One of the interesting things about ‘Saw’ is that you don’t find out about things in sequential or linear order. One of the things that fans have liked a lot is, we don’t forget about details. They come back and reveal themselves as the story evolves. – Tobin Bell
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story. – Stendhal
What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn’t matter. – Sarah Monette
West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York. – Vincente Minnelli
Every part of the country has its story to tell, so I’m always looking for the next place to be. – Tracie Peterson
Every person I talk to has a story about how their smoke alarm went off or woke them up with a battery beeping. So you take it off the wall and you take the battery out and say ‘screw this.’ They hate the products. – Tony Fadell
‘Glass Sword’ has several set piece scenes that I plotted out or visualized before I wrote them, but I always knew they were coming. They anchor bits of the story. – Victoria Aveyard
I am sure that in the story of Adam and Eve, the forbidden fruit was a fig and not an apple, pear or anything else. – Yotam Ottolenghi
I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler – I was the only one that lived to tell the story – so I called myself the romantic lead. – Sally Kellerman
I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself. – Sam Mendes
The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story rather than the music. – Steven Price
It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world. – Umberto Eco
First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It’s also about politics. – Sarah Zettel
Point-of-view is a matter that readers rarely pay attention to, yet it’s one of the most important story decisions an author makes. – Therese Fowler
As a writer, I always try as hard as possible to get out of the way of the story, so maybe that’s the most important thing my readers should know – I’m all about the story, not about the ego. – Simon Toyne
If a film is suitable for family viewing, it should remain so, and if a film has some adult content, it should remain so, and these genres should never be mixed and spoil the vision of the story teller. – Vijay Sethupathi
