Discovery Quote by Charles Hard Townes

If I'd done the discovery before I wrote the book, then there would be nothing to discover. It would feel dutiful instead of exciting.

— Heidi Julavits

No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way.

— Catherynne M. Valente

“I feel like the only reason we’re able to find some of these unique ideas, characters, and story twists is through discovery. And, by…

— Ed Catmull

“a story is a letter the author writes to himself to tell what he wouldn't discover otherwise.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.

— Hans Christian Andersen

“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell him things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Actually everybody has a story, a fairy tale in their heart that they adhere to.

— Phoebe Stone

“Fairy tales represent hundreds of years of stories based on thousands of years of stories told by hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions of tellers.”

— Kate Bernheimer

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

— Flannery O'Connor

Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.”

— George Saunders

That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.

— George Saunders