Narrative Urgency Quotes

I've always wanted to write a book. And it turned out that it was more about finding a story that I felt I was necessary for, that no-one else could write.

Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.

When you play guest parts, you play your story in a very urgent kind of way.

I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do.

Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?"

Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.

You want the greatest trick for writing a novel? Here it is: imagine urgently whispering your story into one person's ear - and only one. This one visualization will clarify every word choice you make.

'Homeland' is necessarily open-ended since the idea behind television is to spend as much time as possible resolving as little as possible, with a story's usual need for resolution replaced by an unrelenting urgency that always defers answers and constantly postpones closure.