Lajos Egri Quotes

I can't tell a story just by deciding to tell a story, do it in a didactic way. I need to have my own emotion, to feel, 'Wow, there is something I can discover, I can create.'

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

Every creative story is different. And yet every creative story is the same: There was nothing, now there is something. It's almost like magic.

Variety of characters and themes bring out the best in me.

Every story is different, so what is a detail in one might not be in something else. Diversity is something I embrace and love about my work.

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

As fiction writers, we are entertainers.

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

Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

As soon as you think, 'Pirates are really popular right now with kids so I'm going to write a pirate movie'... that's when you're dead.

Even Dopehri,' if somebody has a bit of imagination, the way it's written, they will be able to see that it's a screenplay with dialogues.

Find your own way into your story. Find your own way into your game.

I don't write the same book twice.

I tried writing a novel, but plays were the thing that kept feeding me, asking me to come back, sit down and be with them.

I was an actor for a little bit. That's when I started to understand fiction - and that one of the great things about fiction is that you're dependent on the characters as much as they're dependent on you.

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

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

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

There's no game plan when it comes to thinking up new characters; inspiration can come from anything - from a wig I've seen to an expression I've heard someone use.

You learn a lot, writing fiction.

As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.

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.

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part.

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.