Quote by Ann Patchett

“No story is worth telling without the twists and turns. Make them count instead.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

“It’s what my mother would say. She thinks a weightless story is better than one that’s too heavy.” “So. My story is a heavy…

— Diane Setterfield

“The story was never the the story, and it surprised you, how much another person could carry.”

— Justin Cronin

“If I had known his favorite game was mental twister, I would have suggested a movie over game night.”

— Alfa H

“I realised that when someone plays hard to get, they are making themselves into a character in a story, and they choose the story…

— Scarlett Thomas

“I feel that the characters in my book, if they were real, would be like, "Seriously, another plot twist?”

— Kaya Carvajal

“Every story needs to be told in just the right way.”

— Thomas Ligotti

“Imagine the story you would most want to read, and then shamelessly write it.”

— J.D. Salinger

“Think of all the stories that would end before they begin if their characters gave careful consideration to the consequences of their actions.”

— Peter Selgin

“others, the story losing”

— Ian W. Toll

“What he had to tell them was a story”

— Daniel Quinn

“I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn— that there are a…

— Orson Scott Card