A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I don't want to be like other authors and say that there are only a few story lines in literature. A story… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
“there was a sort of embarrassment about storytelling that struck home powerfully about one hundred years ago, at the beginning of modernism.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I was hugely formed by stories I was told as a child whether that was in a book, the cinema, theatre or… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
