Conscious Quote by Aleksandar Hemon

we lived in the gaps between the stories

— Margaret Atwood

The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something.

— Marlon James

I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people's lives present themselves.

— Alice Munro

You are saying, are you not, I said to Manuelito, that stories have more room in them than ideas? [...] He laughed. That is…

— Alice Walker

I think that, as a writer, while it's your job to construct stories, you have to navigate your way through them with your heart.

— Abi Morgan

Storytelling bridges the generational gaps in ideology.

— Elise M. Boulding

My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.

— Arthur Smith

I can't be bothered with narrative. It takes too long for me to try to think of it.

— Fred Armisen

When I start a story, I don't know where it's going.

— Stephen King

“One thing writers have in common is the need to procrastinate. People don't really understand this, but it's not avoiding work, it is work.…

— Steven T. Seagle

I think that the way that I write stories is by instinct. You have some basic ideas - a character, or an image, or…

— Dan Chaon

I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle I begin…

— Anton Chekhov