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I worked in script development, many years ago, and read a lot of scripts. Between that and the scripts I've read as an actor, and I'm a writer as well, I think I have a pretty good sense about whether the bones of a story are there and whether the structure is intact.

I worked in the story department for years, on Cars and Toy Story 3.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

I would definitely like to direct at some point. I've been very fortunate to work with some amazing talent and study them. But when the right time and the right story arrives, and I feel like I'm compelled to tell it, then I'll do that.

I would definitely not rule out doing television, in the future, because I think it's a great medium for telling stories.

I would figure out, later, how to explain to my boss that, for me, Delia will never be a story, but a happy ending.

I would guess that about 75% of my stories are like that - personal experiences that I probably over-milk.

I would encourage you as a screenwriter to trust your story and don't make notes for the actors or don't make notes for the reader.

I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.

I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.

I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

I would love to work with Ron Howard. I think he is brilliant. I love the stories that he chooses. Theyre always very personal and intense. He loves a lot of emotion, and hes so well equipped to pull all of that out of the actors. I really love that kind of thing and I think thats what movies should be about.

I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.

I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time.

I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.

I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel

I would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from my life.

I would've never done a 1970's road movie. It just wouldn't have occurred to me. So when he started talking about it he brought up all these movies and he'll do that with you guys and you'll feel the Goosebumps as you start realizing the story that he wanted to tell.

I would thank God, but I don't believe in it... It's like a movie that was way too popular. It's a story that's been told too many times and just doesn't mean anything... All I really believe in is this moment, like right now.

I would say what was always on her[Harper Lee] mind was the stories she had to tell, and the story was pretty obvious in "To Kill A Mockingbird," maybe a bit - little bit less obvious and more obscure in "Go Set A Watchman.

I would spend my time telling stories or writing them.

I would sit in my room and become hysterical about the wild incredible story I was writing. And I thought I was writing realism. It never occurred to me that I was writing absurdity. Realism and absurdity are so similar in the lives of American blacks one cannot tell the difference.

I write 3-4 days a week, 4-5 hours at a time (with lots of breaks). My goal is 2000 words when I sit down to write and usually, I hit that, though it can take anywhere from 3-7 hours to get there. I usually know the basics of where the story is going, but the specifics just sort of come to me as I write.

I write about things that scare me. I've never written a snake story in my life. I myself have never written a story about snakes because they don't scare me. I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me.

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.

I write every day and I just love doing it. It's just... it's just a wonderful thing. Some of my stories work, some of them don't work. Some of them are wild and I love them, but they certainly don't fit into any kind of a normal system that I know about.

I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.

I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.

I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

I write all day and outline stories, a sports mythological universe.

I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.

I write weird stories. I don't know why I like weirdness so much ... But when I write, I write weird. That's very strange. When I'm getting more and more serious, I'm getting more and more weird.

I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.

I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it.

I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.

I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on radio.

I write short stories, and I wrote a play.

I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself.

I write short stories. I write every day.

I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.

I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.

I wrote my first story in second grade, and was trying novel-length by sixth.

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.

James Leininger's story is the most compelling evidence so far for reincarnation.

[James] Baldwin was a revelation for me, the kind of revelation that follows you all your life because you can go back to it. It's not just about stories. It's about philosophy. It's about criticizing the world. It's about deconstructing the world around you.

Jane's stories are extremely sensible. Then Diana puts too many murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them.