Laurie Simmons Quotes

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

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

Sometimes my lyrics may describe a situation that happened to a friend. Other times, I create a story from the ground up.

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

Our biggest challenge is always story. The story is the ultimate thing you try to tackle.

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

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

I'm just writing a story that I want to read.

Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it.

I am a story teller and I take each story very seriously.

Stories have a way of telling themselves.

It's really, always, the story and the characters that come first, and the other things are kind of dealt with in time or, in fact, driven by the story.

Everything I do is just an opportunity to tell a great story.

A short story is one idea; a novel is a whole soup of them.

It's writing songs within the structure of telling a story, so it becomes a platform for diverse songwriting, for a writing process that's broader than just figuring out a song. You're also dealing with always pushing the story forward, with casting the voices, with the orchestration, with the arrangements.

I always feel like a script is a recipe, and then you bring the elements into the recipe, and you cook with it.

'Annapurna' is a sort of novel. It's a novel, but a true novel.

I don't care whether the story is real or fantastical. I tell the story that needs to be told.

Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.

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.

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.

To me the most important thing is a good story, though I know how cliche that sounds.

I've tried to tell a story. For me, it is the best one.

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