I started as a playwright. Any sort of scriptwriting you do helps you hone your story. You have the same demands of creating a plot, developing relatable characters and keeping your audience invested in your story. My books are basically structured like three-act plays.
Suzanne Collins
Related Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton... CAROLINE LAWRENCE Every movie has three things you have to do - you have to have a compelling story that keeps people ... JOHN LASSETER Plots are artificial. Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There'... RICHARD LINKLATER You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem t... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT I think when people begin to tell their stories, everything changes, because not only are you legiti... EVE ENSLER You need to be invested in what happens. The characters are your conduit to the story. Many modern h... JANE GOLDMAN If you have to tell a story without speaking, it's sort of like - I come from a dance background... SAMI GAYLE All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the ... ALICE HOFFMAN I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters a... ERNEST GAINES My only responsibility as a playwright and a storyteller is to give you the time of your life in the... LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA I’ve never once thought about the interpretative, the storytelling aspect of life, of my life. I a... JANDY NELSON I told him, as long as you have a bat in your hand, you can rewrite the story. Instead of just talki... REGGIE JACKSON But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not,... KHALED HOSSEINI If you can remove a female character from your plot and replace her with a sexy lamp and your story ... KELLY SUE DECONNICK My readers have to work with me to create the experience. They have to bring their imaginations to t... J.K. ROWLING I read and write for character. If I like and can relate to the characters in a story I can enjoy an... CHARLES DE LINT The easiest story to tell is the story of your life, in telling it you are at your best because you ... SOTONYE ANGA When you are producing for ABC, you are producing for a big tent network. So when you are thinking a... ANNE SWEENEY If you don't like my story,write your own CHINUA ACHEBE You can't make a fan of everyone. Stay true to your story, characters, music, art or whatever it is ... ANN MARIE FROHOFF You couldn’t control how your story started, but you can write a few good pages in there MUSTAFA SAIFUDDIN You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence... ANNE RICE Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your characte... EDWARD JAMES OLMOS Sharing stories that fill our chambers with an explosion of unique voices is a means to instigate an... KILROY J. OLDSTER As a lawyer, particularly in criminal law, you really do have to try to tell your story to the jury ... MARCIA CLARK When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form... CARLTON CUSE But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a ... BETH HENLEY The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture t... NANCY KRESS To live is to write a story. If you are a strong person, your life story will mostly be written by y... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small event... SARA ZARR But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your b... ERICH MARIA REMARQUE Sometimes you have to let others tell their story about you...even if most of it is fabricated. Your... SANJOY DASGUPTA JENDAYI Sometimes you have to let others tell their story about you...even if most of it is fabricated. Your... SANJO JENDAYI Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary ... CARMEN AGRA DEEDY I just told him what my father used to tell me. As long as you have a bat in your hand, you can re-w... REGGIE JACKSON To have a different life you have be a different person. You have to do what you haven't done. You h... SHANNON L. ALDER But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, a... BETH HENLEY We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. ... BRADLEY WHITFORD So what’s your story?” he asked, sitting down next to me at a safe distance. “I already told y... JOHN GREEN If your life is a blank page, that only means you have room to write your story. You have the power ... THEA HARRISON If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story. TERRY PRATCHETT That's what is so great about being able to record a 13-song album. You can do a very eclectic g... REBA MCENTIRE Great characters- They are pivotal for a great plot. THEN a solid plot: Why then? If you do not have... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES I wanted you to thank you for being my friend and letting me play a part in your story. CHRISTOPHER PIKE The story of your life is never complete without your failures, successes, pain, joy, sickness, heal... SOTONYE ANGA I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story. RACHEL GRIFFITHS You know the great thing about life I feel...is that if your really consciously choose to...you can ... G. BRIAN BENSON As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on peo... TONY KUSHNER When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passiv... HAMILTON JORDAN It helps if you have a string of five or six or seven good drafts to develop a team. It helps when y... JON GRUDEN Life. Life is a show. It's up to you how to make your own story, do your own show and how to live yo... DIANA ROSE MORCILLA You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that ... KARLIE KLOSS There's something horribly unfair about dying in the middle of a good story, before you have a chanc... JOE HILL I believe that you are a product of your environment; however, I also believe you are in charge of c... N. S. COLE What monster sleeps in the deep of your story? You need a monster. Without a monster there is no sto... BILLY MARSHALL Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live ... SOGYAL RINPOCHE In your hobbies, you will find your future
In your fears, you will find your ambitions
In your story... RICHARD ADJI What you own is your own kingdomWhat you do is your own gloryWhat you love is your own powerWhat you... NEIL PEART Any person or thing of significance to you unconsciously plays a role in mirroring your own internal... NEBO D. LUKOVICH You're following your track, the story, your only plan, your map for the audience, and all the o... GUS VAN SANT Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of an... VIRGINIA WOOLF Be the hero of your own story.
You are born to turn your mess into a message and the test into a tes... FARSHAD ASL You have to suspend disbelief a little bit to buy into your situation and to the story and to how th... RICHARD DEAN ANDERSON Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictate... DON MIGUEL RUIZ In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story t... GEOFF RYMAN As a screenwriter, there's so many layers you have to go through in order to tell your story. Yo... MORLEY You know, even big-time academics kind of have groupies. Anyone with any sort of fame. So, like, in ... TUCKER MAX As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an ex... TOM STOPPARD If you can relate to what the character's going through, the story can be as ridiculous as possi... DREW GODDARD The things you need to do remain the same. You have to pay your bills on time and keep your debt lev... GREG MCBRIDE Don't forget, you are the hero of your own story. GREG BOYLE I never feel lonely if I've got a book - they're like old friends. Even if you're not re... EMILIA FOX You can be a drunk. You can be a survivor of abuse. You can be an ex-con. You can be a homeless pers... LIDIA YUKNAVITCH I tell my students based on my experiences in Hollywood, sure, you can always move to L.A. and try t... TANANARIVE DUE If you don't like someone's story, write your own. CHINUA ACHEBE People's understanding of their own faith opens up. When you hear a story that is like one of your o... FRED SHAW If you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience. NORBERT LEO BUTZ You can’t just come out and say what you have to say. That’s what people do on airplanes, when a... ADAIR LARA If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity. STEVE MARABOLI It started with the plot. What do you do on your day off? Of course you go to the moon. Why? Because... PETER SALLIS Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their ow... C.S. LEWIS You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story mus... IRENE C. KASSORLA Who are you if nobody knows your story? THISURI WANNIARACHCHI “Do as I say, not as I do!
You are my parent, guardian, and mentor too,
I love you, need you and w... ROSS ELDER The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vis... NEIL GAIMAN As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know. NANCY KRESS To put on your suit and play jazz music, ... knowing that many people in your audience have never ex... WYNTON MARSALIS The simplicity of being my own woman, is that when I share my story it opens up the door for you to ... SUSIE L HILL Hang in there, Your story isn't over yet, it just started. Never forget why you started this Journey... RICHARD JR CHIEF CALF Be a master of yourself. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA These are both excellent books for developing systems in your home and office, with many resources t... DELMA SMITH Your inner Strength makes you capable of fighting the odds.More you engage to your strength & capabi... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Instead of telling a story about how great your brand is, try telling a story that shows you complet... LEWIS HOWES Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU The magic happens when you take facts and figures, features and benefits, decks and PowerPoints - re... PETER GUBER When you are the writer of your story, the end depends on you, not on fate... DEEPIKA JANIYANI
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SUZANNE COLLINS Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?” I say. “I don't know. I... SUZANNE COLLINS You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug. SUZANNE COLLINS Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor. SUZANNE COLLINS Para que haya traición debe haber primero confianza. SUZANNE COLLINS I have to bite my lip not to screen every foul name I know at the fire starter. What are they thinki... SUZANNE COLLINS Certos passos você tem de dar sozinho. SUZANNE COLLINS She crept up on me. SUZANNE COLLINS We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared SUZANNE COLLINS How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving. SUZANNE COLLINS For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear a... SUZANNE COLLINS I’m about to haul my packs into a tree to make camp when a silver parachute floats down and lands ... SUZANNE COLLINS It's weird, how much he's noticed me... And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to him as I ima... SUZANNE COLLINS It's hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots." - Katniss. SUZANNE COLLINS Are you preparing for another war, Plutarch?" I ask. "Oh, not now. Now we're in a sweet period ... SUZANNE COLLINS Not exactly. You see, Portia and I think that the coal miner thing's very overdone. No one will reme... SUZANNE COLLINS At the moment, the choice would be simple. I can survive just fine without either of them. SUZANNE COLLINS If he wants me broken, then I will have to be whole. SUZANNE COLLINS By late afternoon I lie with my head in Peeta’s lap making a crown of flowers while he fiddles wit... SUZANNE COLLINS As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve. SUZANNE COLLINS You've got to go through it to get to the end of it. SUZANNE COLLINS I'm more than just a piece in their Games. SUZANNE COLLINS Why not? It's true. My best hope is to not disgrace myself and..." He hesitates. And what... SUZANNE COLLINS I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents. SUZANNE COLLINS One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reade... SUZANNE COLLINS I wish Peeta were here to hold me, until I remember I'm not supposed to wish that anymore. I have ch... SUZANNE COLLINS Its hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots. SUZANNE COLLINS The beauty of this idea is that my decision to keep Peeta alive at the expense of my own life is its... SUZANNE COLLINS hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home," I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you," ... SUZANNE COLLINS Not like this. He wanted it to be real. SUZANNE COLLINS Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese. SUZANNE COLLINS So what should we do with our last few days?” “I just want to spend every possible minute o... SUZANNE COLLINS Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena. SUZANNE COLLINS Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he... SUZANNE COLLINS Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everyt... SUZANNE COLLINS But because two can play at this game, I stand on tiptoe and kiss his cheek. Right on his bruise. SUZANNE COLLINS Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around. SUZANNE COLLINS Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead. SUZANNE COLLINS It made me realize how I needed to stop punishing her for something she couldn't help [...] because ... SUZANNE COLLINS And some small gnarled place inside me hated her for her weakness, for her neglect, for the months s... SUZANNE COLLINS But some secrets are too delicious not to share. SUZANNE COLLINS If I have to pick one story that most influenced 'The Hunger Games,' it would be the Greek m... SUZANNE COLLINS