Architecture Quote by Colum McCann

The only reason we find structure in stories is because it's there naturally in human interaction, and in the way that people tell stories.

— Lynda Barry

My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.

— Anita Desai

My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.

— Harold Ramis

I think structure is so deep in us. We put it in stories we tell our friends or in emails we write. We want…

— Greta Gerwig

A structure is a bit like a story. People will go along with you - they see where you're going.

— Melvyn Bragg

Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters…

— Penelope Lively

I'm a big believer that the structure of stories should reflect the content of the story.

— Noah Hawley

I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the…

— Jess Walter

Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton. It is how you 'flesh out…

— Caroline Lawrence

[I have a] way of making narrative sculpture, where first you make a text and out of that text you make objects. [...] I…

— Matthew Barney

The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and…

— Nigel Kneale

Any time I put together a story collection, I don't know what it's going to look like overall - or even what the title…

— Brian Evenson