D. J. MacHale Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by D. J. MacHale:
I'd love to play the piano, and I'm going to work on it.
~D. J. MacHale
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To write, you need to find what you love.
~D. J. MacHale
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A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is going to be staged, for real.
~D. J. MacHale
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
~D. J. MacHale
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The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.
~D. J. MacHale
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
~D. J. MacHale
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Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.
~D. J. MacHale
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My life is an ongoing, ever changing adventure.
~D. J. MacHale
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It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just kind of come along for the ride.
~D. J. MacHale
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