Abhay Deol Quotes

Fans want to see a story with characters, and they want to see a story.

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

People love to be told stories, but it's the sugar that draws you into the theater.

I like having a plot; I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.

All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.

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

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

I'm first and foremost interested in the story, the characters.

I love good stories; you have to have a good plot - characters which intertwine with a good plot.

And meanwhile, the storytellers like me and Anderson, Silverberg... we tell stories. People like them. They want to know how it comes out, they want to know what the ending is.

I'm a New York story.

Whenever you can manoeuvre your characters into a situation where they both have a good argument to make, you're on the right track.

Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.

The parallels between a stage and a book are compelling. You, like all authors, create 'characters' in a 'setting' who speak 'dialogue' encased in 'scenes.' Most importantly, you - like the playwright - have an 'audience.'

I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations.

For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story.

Anything with a good story and characters I think would be great.

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.

You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It's got a beginning, and a middle and an end. It should have a plot; it should have the characters, conflict. It is a little play. And in it, will be funny stuff.

With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.

My writing has a lot of surprising twists.

I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night.

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.