William Earl Brown Quotes

I'm not as worried about the process of writing, simply because I think I've got that one down, you know? I think I know what brings specificity to these ideas, what brings specificity to the genre elements, or anything else, and it's personal emotions.

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going.

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.

When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point.

When I work on a novel, I usually have one character and a setting in mind.

I never went to a writing school, so 'The Wire' was my writing school.

I write both fiction and nonfiction. I begin my fiction with the main character. The story comes later.

I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.

I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me.

You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.

Fiction is about telling a good story, first and foremost. But of course, everything I'm interested in or angry about leaks into my writing, from art to violence against women.

I think a good story's a good story and a good character's a good character.

Listen to great storytellers; slowly, you will learn about voice, timing, tension, structure, climax - all the things you need to tell stories that will capture the imagination of your audience.

I spent ages figuring out things like viewpoint, how you tell the story, and so on.

In school, you learn that there are only seven kinds of stories. There's man versus nature, man versus man, man versus himself, blah blah blah. So it doesn't matter what they're called. It's this: do you have a new story that fits into one of those things.

My novels are all ideas.

I want to tell a story and shape it all the way through to the end.

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

My sister and brother are both writers as well. We are constantly discussing story and plot lines. And I love to discuss story ideas with my husband.

A story is built on characters and reasons.