Amanda Warren Quotes

Storytelling is what lights my fire.

When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

For myself, I feel more natural writing stories or novels than writing plays. I feel more like myself, like I can express myself better, and like I have a greater clarity about what I want to do.

Good storytelling is harder than it sounds, but the easy part is that everyone has the ability to do it. ...Tap into it.

For me, when I start a novel, I only have a general sense of what I am going to do - usually three or four big scenes or something to which I can really respond emotionally.

I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve problems in creative ways.

I love the idea of real-life experiences finding their way into fiction. I think that's really cool.

I like going back and writing fiction.

I write the kind of stuff I'd like to watch.

I'm interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas.

Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate.

You've got to think of fun stories, and if the fun story happened to have a lesson, that's a great thing. If you build a movie around a lesson, you're in real trouble.

Like all novelists, I'm interested in the filters between reality and the imagination.

So writing stories is not easier in comparison to the playwriting or translation; the stories are easier in league with them.

You spend so much time as a writer telling straight and linear stories.

I could make up characters till the cows came home. Plot's what hard. Very hard.

This is absolutely the true answer, no word of a lie, 100% guaranteed: Q: What's the best way to turn my idea into a story? A: Whatever works for you.

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.'

A novel is challenging, because you have more story than you need and you have to select and narrow.

Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.

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

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'

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.