Arfi Lamba Quotes

As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his qualification; such a man will be careful not to be wearisome, and to keep his point, or his catastrophe, well in hand.

My story is very long. And for somebody to write a good story, one needs a good writer, too.

But basically, I'm trying to write a fun story.

My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.

I would never make up a character who didn't exist or an event that didn't transpire. If you're a real writer, you have other tools in your toolbox to build drama.

What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.

It's a real challenge to complete a story arc and end up with a cool punchline in 120 characters.

All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.

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

You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved, because the movie is almost always bad when you do that. Your job No. 1 is for it to be entertaining, and if it's inspiring, that is great, too.

You've got to think of fun stories, and if the fun story happened to have a lesson, that's a great thing. If you build a movie around a lesson, you're in real trouble.

I used to be a good story writer. I could make up a story with like, eight people in it and tell you where they all lived, what color their houses are.

You don't have to be the most amazing writer, you don't have to get top marks in your English GCSE, you just have to be someone who can tell a good story, and tell it right, and tell it well.

To me, a good storyteller should be able to tell stories across genres.

It always comes down to script and characters.

Good storytelling is harder than it sounds, but the easy part is that everyone has the ability to do it. ...Tap into it.

Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.

For me, inspiration isn't a sort of spark which lights the fire of the story. It's more like a thread, one of many, which you can tease out of a story once it's written, if you feel so inclined.

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow.

Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

Storytelling is what lights my fire.

All the writing elements are the same. You need to tell a good story... You've got good characters... People think there's some dramatic difference between writing 'Little Bear' and the 'Hunger Games,' and as a writer, for me, there isn't.

You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved because the movie is almost always bad when you do that.

I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.

Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.