Destiny Quote by Charles Baxter

There are things the story must have or else look incomplete. And these will almost automatically present themselves. When they don't, you are in…

— Chinua Achebe

The truth of the story lies in the details.

— Paul Auster

I think when we get to a place that this is not the story, that everyone's story is a part of the story, then…

— Ava DuVernay

Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.

— Mitch Albom

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.

— Jeanette Winterson

“Another mistake is presenting too much background information, and doing so in the first few pages. Writers should begin their stories with the event…

— Evan Marshall

“If someone tells you what a story is about, they are probably right. If they tell you that that is all a story is…

— Neil Gaiman

That’s where proper stories begin, don’t they, when the handsome stranger arrives and everything goes wrong?

— Franny Billingsley

Sometimes I get the story wrong, or it's the wrong story, and then things don't work.

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.

— Jandy Nelson

The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more…

— Dave Eggers

Stories matter. Stories are how we make sense of the world, which doesn't mean that those stories can't be stupid and simplistic and full…

— Laurie Penny