Communication Quote by Alice Munro

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final…

— Alice Munro

“Yeah, apparently this chick didn’t know-“ He held up a hand. “Thank you, but I came to hear your story, not theirs,” he took…

— Melanie Fair

“Almost everyone I’ve ever met likes to hear a story from the beginning. It’s a curious prejudice, when you think about it. In life,…

— Stephen Tobolowsky

“I often forget that other people's stories aren't simply introductions to my own more engaging, more dramatic, more relevant, and better-told tales, but rather…

— Will Schwalbe

“We had just heard that story recounted so many times over the years that it was easy to take the details and fold them…

— Sarah Dessen

“Stories give you a way to see things. A way to understand the events of your life. Even if you don't realize it while…

— Matthew Kirby

“The stories don't fit back together, and it's the end of stories, those devices we carry like shells and shields and blinkers and occasionally…

— Rebecca Solnit

“You think you know how a story begins, or how it's going to turn out, especially when it's your own. You don't.”

— Edan Lepucki

You must remember, all stories start somewhere.

— Drew Hayden Taylor

Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.

— Nell Freudenberger

“This is what you must remember: the ending of one story is just the beginning of another.”

— N.K. Jemisin

“We may just be specters in this world, but our stories, if they are remembered and retold, become real and solid and alive... Once…

— Candace Fleming