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“The more limitations you put on a character often times the better a character you'll make them, the more interesting the story becomes because the character can't simply wave a hand and make something happen. They have to work within the framework.”

Character Stories Hands Happens Interesting Wave Things Happen Limitation Framework

Author:Brandon Sanderson

“This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.”

Thinking Stories Literature Loss Identity Framework

Book:The Educated Imagination

Source: The Educated Imagination

“The Mackenzie had never met folk so poor in story and song and legends, and it moved him to a pity that pricked at his eyes. Without that tapestry of colour and words and ritual, what was life but eating and mating, sleeping and moving your bowels? All of them good and necessary, but not enough; and they themselves needed that framework too, to give them meaning.”

Giving Enough Stories Eye Moving Song Sleep Poor Needed Mets Eating Moved Folks Pity His Eyes Colour Ritual Legends Framework Tapestry Mating Bowels

Author:S.M. Stirling

“A lot of the times I'm looking at something that I discover is part of a larger framework and not just a couple jokes. I see that it's a set, a story that I'll be telling. Sometimes I get lost in that.”

Sometimes Stories Lost Couple Jokes Framework

Author:Lewis Black