Circles Quote by Anish Kapoor

I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.

— Flannery O'Connor

No story is devoid of meaning ... If you know how to look for it.

— Daniel Quinn

If it's a good story, it's a good story, and it draws readers in.

— H. W. Brands

For me, as I've said many times, the story is not research. The story is how the characters relate with each other and with…

— Uwem Akpan

A great story poorly told doesn't do anybody any good at all, and nobody wants to hear it, and nobody wants to read it.…

— Jason Isbell

What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is all a…

— Joy Williams

I wouldn't do a project if it weren't a story I wanted to tell. That's rewarding in itself, as a writer, if you're working…

— Stephen Schwartz

I don't want to insert myself into the story. I just want to give a useful analysis of it to help people come to…

— Rachel Maddow

I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail,…

— John Hench

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

I see a great lack of stories around. I bought six literary magazines and looked through them to see what people were doing. There…

— Keith Johnstone

To me, it's about good work, a good story, and tastefully done. There's so many stigmas - oh, you're on the small screen or…

— Keshia Knight Pulliam