Louis Malle Quotes

A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes.

It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.

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

I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.

You have considerable choice in how you end your fiction. For all stories, the basic rule is the same: Choose the type of ending that best suits what's gone before.

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

I think situations are more important than plot and character.

In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end. You have to have a defining moment and kick it to death. You gotta be able to recognize that, by the way. It probably takes experience.

Both types of books - fiction and nonfiction - are a search for story. As a writer and a reader, there's nothing I crave more than a good story!

As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing.

The way I express ideas is through the plot, Suspense is an important part of expressing an idea.

Basically, all novelists should want to tell a story, and if they don't want to, they shouldn't be novelists. I think story-telling is important and underrated.

It's always the story that interests me.

I've just always been very interested in story above all.

I think in most cases, when you're writing a song, you're just making up a little story, and you're not really thinking about making a point one way or another about it. You're just coming up with a little scenario and seeing it through, and that's it.

To write a story is to create a world of your own.

I write largely plot-driven stories.

I'm a fan of creative writing and telling stories.

The writing is only ever the attractive thing about a part. And also if all the elements within the writing come together - the character and the structure and the narrative - if they are all there then you become excited.

Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.

There's conflict in every story.

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

If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending.

I think the most important thing when you're telling a story is to just tell the story as best as you possibly can.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.