Bird Quote by Ann-Marie MacDonald

“This is the time of myths. They are woven into the present like silk strands from the past, like a wire mesh from the…

— Lavie Tidhar

You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason I write…

— Stephen King

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted…

— Aaron Sorkin

“We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much…

— Patrick Ness

I think that we're pattern-seeking animals, and what we like best is a story where everything fits together, where there's no puzzle pieces left…

— Noah Hawley

“We who work in fantasy today take the threads from all the story tellers of the past. From the ancient, many colored threads we…

— Janet Lee Carey

And telling a story, I suppose, is like winding a skein of spun yarn- you sometimes lose track of the beginning.

— Edith Pattou

There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme

— Jacqueline Carey

“To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - the plot, as…

— C.S. Lewis

It will be very interesting one day to follow the pattern of our life as it is spread out like a beautiful tapestry. As…

— Maria von Trapp

Readers want a story, not a pattern. It's the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars.

— Sara Zarr

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

— E. M. Forster