Whether a story is told on the page or on the screen, the same elements are required. You’ve got to have characters you can identify with, and there’d better be trouble brewing somewhere. Whatever these people’s lives have been before, they’re about to change in a big way. That’s what stories are all about.
– Jenny Wingfield
Tag: trouble
Quotable 156
It’s very hard to write about that which is always beautiful and pleasant and good. You don’t get anywhere with it. There’s no friction in it. There’s no trouble. You have to have trouble. Somebody’s got to get in trouble, or no one wants to read it.
– Paul Bowles
Quotable 120
Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.
– Kurt Vonnegut
Quotable 88
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
– Joseph Heller