Sangeetha Krish Quotes

What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web.

When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.

Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big part of the storytelling process.

If you get a script and it's really well written, that's always exciting.

My number one goal has always been to try to tell interesting, cohesive, long-term stories.

When you write fiction, you have an ideal reader in your mind who's sort of you but smarter.

Sometimes, I have themes that interest me or that touch on larger issues but, really, I'm just trying to figure out the plot, or how the characters work. I'm trying to make the best story I possibly can.

If I ever wrote a script myself, it would be strongly emotional material.

A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.

The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling.

Being a novelist is the adult version of a kid creating a make-believe world. But unlike a child, a writer of fiction has to come up with a structured story, one that has as much meaning for others as it has for her.

I love writing letters. In order to write a novel in first person, I think I needed an addressee.

I just want to tell a good story, so I always ask myself, 'Are these people real to me?'

I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.

The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.

I am much more aware of making the plot more original, avoiding contrivance, having the story matter much more. I used to think more about symbols consciously. Now I think much more about the story.

I get so excited about reading a new script.

A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme.

To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.

You can't improv off of bad writing. Then you have to actually create your objective, which is really hard to do in an element without the skeleton to go off of.

I didn't plan to write YA - I had a story that simply wasn't working as a straight-up fantasy novel.

A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.

Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.

Writing sketches, you're also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.