Ends Quote by Amy Hempel

It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

— Katy Lederer

A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more…

— Karen Thompson Walker

I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?

— Anonymous

When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.

— Sharon Creech

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

— Per Petterson

I find most 'rules' about how to write a 'good story' confining, and I enjoy writing stories that don't look like stories at all…

— Ken Liu

Good writing is about finding and exploiting anecdotes that resonate with the reader. In storytelling, it's OK if you only make one point, as…

— Ben Clymer

My story is very long. And for somebody to write a good story, one needs a good writer, too.

— Dutee Chand

A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories…

— James Patterson

“All good storytellers are of necessity good writers - even if they may be poorly edited ones. Unfortunately, not all good writers are good…

— Nupur Tustin

The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to the point…

— Robin McKinley