I decided that I would write one story about each thing…

At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

— Umberto Eco

I tell people the first time I decided to write a novel I was in my mid-20s, and it was, 'Well, it's time to…

— John Scalzi

Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

— Ernest Hemingway

Many things make the ideal magazine story . But one thing is that it calls attention to the reader to something that they never…

— Ron Rosenbaum

“Without people hurting one another, there’s no such thing as story. There’s no such thing as history. The entire record of human myth and…

— Van Badham

The goal is always about the next story. It's always about the thing I haven't done before. It's about learning, or it's about becoming…

— Joss Whedon

The story is the only thing that's important. Everything else will take care of itself. It's like what bowlers say. You hear writers talk…

— Stephen King

Nevertheless, the book gave Jack a feeling he had never had before, that the past was like a story, in which one thing led…

— Ken Follett

I don't have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it's a good idea to be able…

— Jeremy Northam

It's one thing to narrate a story and another thing to execute it.

— Vijay Antony

I think because "Dollhouse" was the first story that I put out. It was the first thing that people were able to listen to…

— Melanie Martinez

“The news is just the story of the same thing happening to different people.”

— Whiskey Britches

Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?

— Ally Condie

The story is the first thing and the last thing,

— Norman Rockwell

I really want to have a really, really strong, one-sided opinion on something, and be connected to it and tell that story. Until I…

— Michael B. Jordan