Hundred Quote by Amy Hempel

Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write.

— Per Petterson

I try to do the story the way I feel the story should be done, and how that folds into whatever larger sorts of…

— David Milch

My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.

— Etgar Keret

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.

— Tim Vine

I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the…

— Al Yankovic

I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue.

— Steve Buscemi

Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.

— Eudora Welty

“Stories are a basic constituent of human life; they are, in fact, one key element within the total construction of a worldview. I”

— N.T. Wright

To some extent, each sentence has to be the whole story.

— Lyn Hejinian

The writing itself is the thing that generates stories for me.

— Alice McDermott

Now and again thousands of memories converge, harmonize, arrange themselves around a central idea in a coherent form, and I write a story.

— Katherine Anne Porter