When I watch cop shows, I really enjoy them because you can really follow the story and get involved, and the characters are always really interesting. – Vicky McClure
Readers want a story, not a pattern. It’s the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars. – Sara Zarr
I don’t generate a storyline and then fill it out in the course of writing. The story actually generates in the course of the writing. It’s one of the reasons I’ve never been comfortable doing screenplays, because in order to get the contract for the screenplay, you have to sit down and tell them what’s going to happen. – William Gibson
For the Supreme Court, the right for everyone to say ‘I do’ is where the story ends, but for artists, it’s where the story just starts to get interesting. – Stacey D’Erasmo
My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then new affluence. – Sarah Waters
A mental shutdown can happen when a young person is put in front of a Shakespeare play. My pieces are designed to release young audiences into the story and then creep up with the real Shakespeare, almost by stealth. – Tim Crouch
Along with its enchanting and exquisite melodies, West Side Story has attitude and a tremendous amount of frenetic energy. It’s emotional, theatrical and technical. It’s everything. – Steve Vai
Through the ages, God has used the church to keep alive and pass down the story of what Christ has done for us. – Tony Campolo
It would be difficult to write a convincing ghost story set on a sunny day in a big city. – Susan Hill
I’m inspired by my master’s movie ‘Kerd ma lui,’ Bruce Lee’s ‘Fists of Fury,’ and Jackie Chan’s ‘Police Story.’ – Tony Jaa
I don’t know if you’ve ever tried writing a Doctor Who story, but it’s a lot more difficult than it initially appears, especially if you’ve got more than one assistant. – Sarah Sutton
I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places. – Tabitha Soren
I’m not really a science-fiction fan, I quite like the idea of getting away from the science-fiction side of it, for two episodes. It was lovely, it was a super story and great fun. – Sarah Sutton
My first western was ‘Death Hunt’ with Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin; that was where I learned to ride. The movie was based on a true story about a guy that eluded the Mounties in Canada. We were in Canada for six weeks riding horses. – William Sanderson
If you aren’t having fun, if you aren’t anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will you run out of steam on the story, but you won’t be able to entertain anyone else, either. – Tamora Pierce
Having judged a few competitions, it’s clear that novelists are often the laziest short story writers. – Sarah Hall
I’m supposed to share the Lord with people. All of us are disciples on some level. You don’t have to be behind the podium to tell a story, connect with people and share the Gospel. – Trai Byers
For me, I really like the human drama embedded in a crime story, and I like the way European films do that. – Scott Frank
If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else. – Tom Wilkinson
It’s not like I just have to go to Washington and go to the White House everyday, and go to the same press conference at 10 in the morning and then be briefed at 4 in the afternoon, and then get a story on at 6. – Tabitha Soren
You can’t tell the story of a 13-year-old boy who knows every lyric to ‘Phantom of the Opera’ without also referencing how much teasing he gets at school. – Tim Federle
There’s a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage – every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train. – Walter Murch