Peter Lindbergh Quotes

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

From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it.

I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.

Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.

I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around.

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.

Stories of all lengths and depths come from different parts of the cave. For a novel, you must lay in mental, physical and spiritual provision as for a siege or for a time of hectic explosions, while a short story is, or can be, a steady, timed flame like the lighting of a blow lamp on a building site full of dry tinder.

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

My novels are all ideas.

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!

Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with a hook, a situation, a 'what if.'

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

Most fiction comes from your experience.

I think a conceptual idea comes to me first - something I've been mulling over a lot right before I feel like writing a book - and then the characters start to develop around it.

As a storyteller, you have the story that you tell, and you have the way you can tell it, and both are equally important.

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.

I've always written about other artists, or I write my thoughts down, but I've never written a story.

A novel is not a rant.

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

I don't write a lot of fiction.

The way that I process and make writing work is I'm really telling true stories; I'm just putting them in a cape and putting an 'S' on its chest.

I think that I'm going to write a bigger thing, and then I end up writing about people, and the bigger thing recedes into the background, and hope that it's still there.

When you're doing a concept album, it's easy. It's like a movie: you already know what you're dealing with.

No matter what kind of writing you do, it's always the details that make the story.