Books Quote by Anonymous

I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave…

— Mark Millar

Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.

— David Lynch

What I always try to do in all my books is to make the stories such that if you don't agree with me politically…

— China Mieville

Good writing and dark wit always excite me and they come together thrillingly in this book. It has a quiet grip on the strangeness…

— Jenny Diski

I have to challenge myself, and I have to challenge the reader. We should be weaving and working on new stories and not the…

— Brian Azzarello

A compelling story requires conflict, friction, an obstacle to be overcome.

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view.

— Bjorn Borg

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

Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.

— William Landay

“Unlike uplifting light fiction, narrative nonfiction’s trammeled territory provides no safe room where an unnerved writer can banish their unpleasant memories. Narrative nonfiction must…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. In one of my essays,…

— Chinua Achebe

It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the objective dangers someone…

— Etgar Keret