Books Quote by Anne McCaffrey

Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first!

— Anne McCaffrey

I think you tell the story that has to be told. You tell the story that's the truth. You tell the story that readers…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

Find the story you want to tell. If you don't want to write it, find somebody to write it.

— Annette Bening

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

— Per Petterson

“...There is no such thing as a story. The words on paper are only instructions used by each reader to create a story. The…

— Damon Knight

“Write the story. Don't write sentences.”

— James Patterson

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay…

— Hilary Mantel

Everyone has a story to tell. All you have to do is write it. But it's not that easy.

— Frank McCourt

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

— Eudora Welty

If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.

— Ira Glass

Write the story that only you can write.

— Francisco Arcellana

“People are moved more by stories than by logic. Ease listeners into the new or unknown by building the logic of your model into…

— Alexander Osterwalder