Astonishing Quote by Alice Munro

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world…

— Anonymous

Over the years, I have come to realize that no matter how satisfying fiction is, it becomes that much better when it actually happened.

— Elin Hilderbrand

When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of…

— Sara Zarr

You give me the kind of feeling people write novels about.

— Obviously Me :p

A thriller becomes great when it carries a feeling of reality and truth.

— David Morrell

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.

— Annie Proulx

I don't particularly like the idea that there's an arc to the story and that therefore in this scene you have to convey this…

— Michael Winterbottom

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The…

— Nigel Kneale

Some of the best things that have happened in my stories have happened seemingly of their own accord. The writer becomes a listener, just…

— Will Hobbs

“Stories trace their roots to impassioned human interactions with the world. I always sense a storyline as an emotional yearning embedded in a deep…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

A good book or movie or screenplay should be emotionally satisfying. When they're done, you want people to breathe a deep sigh and say,…

— Frank Peretti