To Live Is to Have a Story to Tell

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?” This quote from Fyodor Dostoevsky's White Nights (1848))

But this is life, this is drama. "Conflict, struggle, overcoming obstacles, both inside and outside, are the primary ingredients in all drama," says Syd Fields in [Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting.](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385339038?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0385339038&linkCode=xm2&tag=garrreynoldsc-20))

All drama is conflict. Without conflict, you have no action; without action, you have no character; without character, you have no story; and without story, you have no screenplay.")