We age not by years, but by stories.

Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat…

— Simon Schama

My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that…

— Karen Thompson Walker

When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story.

— Hubert Laws

Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the…

— Val Guest

She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to…

— Sharon Shinn

It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't…

— Patrick Rothfuss

It took me 20 years to buy an electric typewriter, because I was afraid it would be too sensitive. I like to bang the…

— Elmore Leonard

Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working…

— Jill Abramson

In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political.

— Cate Blanchett

It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is…

— Roger Ebert

Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble…

— Alice Sebold

I think it's actually kind of sweet how there is a reciprocal effect that our stories can have on each other.

— Chelsea Manning

I had sort of had a 21st birthday when I was 17, 18 years old living in Japan. I had all of that stuff…

— Sarah Wright

Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative,…

— Anne Enright

Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.

— Alice Hoffman