A nurse later told me that I was her ‘”One.” Meaning, I…

“These remedies that I provide in this book do not come any better than this. If they were any better, I would marry them!”

— Matthew J. Murphy

“He told me how he had first met her during the war and then lost her and won her back, and about their marriage…

— Ernest Hemingway

After the verdict was read in the Simpson case, as the jury was leaving, one of them, I was later told, said, 'We think…

— Marcia Clark

“We ate our fill, but there was more left when we was done. 'It’ll be in the icebox if y’all want some more later…

— Eddie Whitlock

You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I…

— Anonymous

The writer's job, after all, is not to dictate meaning, but to give the reader enough pieces to create his or her own satisfying…

— Celeste Ng

“I need to use everything—sound, image, performance—to get at the full meaning of the story”

— Toni Morrison

The history of Israel and Judaism is the unfolding of the meaning of this story. It's retelling is never finished and will not be…

— Timothy Radcliffe

Don't worry about meaning. If a story's any good, it can't help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means.

— William Kittredge

The meaning of the story is the story.

— Flannery O'Connor

“All narrative begins for me as listening. When I read, I listen. When I write, I listen—for silence, inflection, rhythm, rest. Then comes the…

— Toni Morrison

“I don’t think meaning exists without form, and certainly form does not exist without meaning. Meaning and story come first. Story is the most…

— Percival Everett

Because the meaning of a story does not lie on its surface, visible and self-defining, does not mean that meaning does not exist. Indeed,…

— Joyce Carol Oates

It is gorgeously shot, and Andrew believes that the old school way of making films in the best way. Meaning: you have a story,…

— Michael Berryman

“talking about the “meaning” of a story, we need to be careful not to diminish it, impoverish it. A story can say different things…

— Ursula K. Le Guin