Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world…

“Memory revises me.”

— Li-Young Lee

I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight…

— Amelie Nothomb

Stories are there to be told, and each story changes with the telling. Time changes them. Logic changes them. Grammar changes them. History changes…

— Colum McCann

I like my characters to go through some changes during a story arc.

— Jim Starlin

It is human nature to be shortsighted and to lose momentum to make changes once the story is out of the headlines and there…

— Sheri Fink

I can certainly be surprised by turns a story takes, but usually not once I'm actually in the writing/drawing stage. In the plotting stage,…

— Jessica Abel

“changes in the story were the result of normal editing.”

— Bryan Burrough

“Perspective is what changes our story. When you change your perspective, you change your story. When you change your story, your life changes.”

— Mike W McVey

Gerald's Game,' we could not have made it at a studio without substantive changes to the story.

— Mike Flanagan

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes…

— David Foster Wallace

When a woman writes you a poem, she spends time with the gods on your behalf.

— Aja Monet

A woman who writes feels too much.

— Anne Sexton

“Don’t fall in love with a woman who reads, a woman who feels too much, a woman who writes... From a woman like that,…

— Martha Rivera-Garrido

“I was a little resentful that when a woman writes, her personal story becomes part of the story, even though the novel is fiction.”

— Roxane Gay

A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared.

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa