Art Quote by Catherynne M. Valente

“I do have a single tale. It is a story of love found and love lost – of ambition and madness – of paradise and torment.”

— Brock Meier

“When did this story morph? When did it change from a tale of two to a tragedy of three?”

— Ella Frank

“There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and IÔÇÖve used every one, but there is only one plot ÔÇô things are not as…

— Jim Thompson

“The art of writing tales consists in an ability to draw the rest of life from the little one has understood of it; but…

— Italo Calvino

“We maintain, therefore, that the first essential, the life and soul, so to speak, of Tragedy is the Plot; and that the Characters come…

— Aristotle

“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and…

— Gregorio C. Brillantes

“In the end, all that a writer has to pass on is not myth and anecdote, but scene and character, evoked in memorable prose. ”

— Will Blythe

“You are missing a key element to the story. Maybe the moral of the legend is that we are all carved, created, and formed…

— Amy Harmon

“Each song had a story to tell, each song was a small, but significant tale.”

— Lindy Zart

“Every story has four parts - the beginning, the middle, the almost ending, and the true ending.”

— Stephanie Garber

“There are only four stories: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power, and the journey.…

— Timothy Ferriss

“That is not necessarily bad … but it is limiting. The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale…

— Stephen King