Archetypes Quote by Bob Shacochis

I'm not thinking much about overall themes or preoccupations or anything like that. Instead I'm just trusting that, if I'm working hard, various notions…

— George Saunders

I'm always excited about stories that allow me to explore a character and create interesting stories and worlds that we haven't seen before.

— Dee Rees

My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary…

— Italo Calvino

Stories make ideas and concepts come alive and by shifting the action to another world and another time, they help us step back and…

— Prakah Iyer

I'm more sort of attracted to these worlds that are very hard to gain access to. I think those are the most interesting stories.

— Mariana van Zeller

Ideas for stories come in really different terms and really different ways for me. Sometimes they're from books, sometimes they're just kind of out…

— Brian Evenson

There are always interesting, innovative, dynamic stories being written and being published. They're not always being prominently published, but they're being published.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I really am just trying to tell stories. But stories are often grounded in larger events and themes. They don't have to be -…

— Neal Stephenson

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.

— Robert McKee

My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected to my…

— Pat Conroy

There are millions of stories in the world, and several hundred of them good ones.

— Chauncey Depew

There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.

— Malik Bendjelloul