Course Quote by Arthur Golden

One of the hardest things to do is to tell an untruthful story and maintain it, and that is exactly where I was stuck.

— Mohamedou Ould Slahi

The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.

— Ernest Hemingway

Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later,…

— Michael Ondaatje

You can insist on a different end to the story.

— Monica Lewinsky

Changing the story until you believe it.

— Jay Leno

What I'm hoping to do though is to ground my extrapolations in specificity, and to make sure that the story I tell is deliberately…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

My goal was just to tell the unlikely story in a way that would feel as convincing as possible.

— Karen Thompson Walker

I tried to control the narrative.

— Lance Armstrong

There were so many stories around, it was almost inevitable some of them would turn out to be true.

— Nigel Evans

You can't take a story and just stretch it out - that does not a novel make.

— David Means

Eventually, I came to believe, stupidly, that I had exhausted that story's "original" form with its single use. I went on to other stories,…

— Norman Lock

That was one of the key things - when you asked the story about the writing of the story - one of the things…

— Matt Reeves