My story is the story of thousands of children from around the world. I hope it inspires others to stand up for their rights.
Malala Yousafzai
I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.
A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.
One day, I got so disgusted that I sat down and wrote a list called 'Justin's list of things to do before he kicks the bucket.' I wrote... →
Justin Zackham
My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other... →
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The main thing that I learned from editing is that most people, when they're making a film, they start too early into the story. They will try to... →
Steven Zaillian
The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.
Frank Zappa
My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get... →
Moon Unit Zappa
Readers want a story, not a pattern. It's the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars.
Sara Zarr
I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.