Books Quote by Annie Proulx

The spaces we live in should tell our story.

— Jeremiah Brent

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes…

— David Foster Wallace

There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.

— Anonymous

It is the nature of stories to leave out far more than they include.

— Marion Dane Bauer

A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.

— David Benioff

The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.

— David Shields

The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something.

— Marlon James

There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is…

— Margaret Mahy

Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.

— Tabitha King

I think that people who don't mind reading find the immersion and their ability to get into a deeper place with the story to…

— Rick Remender

I think most writers would like a quiet space, complete isolation, in which they control their own time. Spaces of creativity in which there's…

— Wole Soyinka

I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people's lives present themselves.

— Alice Munro