Bending Quote by David Anthony Durham

Zachary Jernigan's short stories are in deep conversation with the history of the genre while maintaining a thoroughly modern sensibility. Here’s a new writer…

— James Patrick Kelly

“Bad choices make for interesting stories”

— Matthew Bracey

“All good storytellers are of necessity good writers - even if they may be poorly edited ones. Unfortunately, not all good writers are good…

— Nupur Tustin

“Good stories are living texts, and when policies, laws, and social fads change, a good story remains evidence of not only what once was,…

— Nevien Shaabneh

A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it.

— Anne McCaffrey

“Your father may never have produced one of those stuffy tomes we call great literature, but he left the world a substantial collection of…

— David E. Fessenden

A good story needs only a good storyteller.

— Richard Bausch

“Good stories are not written, they are rewritten”

— Phyllis A. Whitney

“My story isn't sweet and harmonious, like invented stories. It tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all…

— Herman Hesse

The 'Classics Illustrated' series was an excellent primer in literature, and I also really enjoyed Zachary Hamby's mythology books for teens.

— James Holzhauer

“It is a still stranger thing that there is nothing so delightful in the world as telling stories. It is far pleasanter than writing…

— Virginia Woolf

The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he tells stories,'…

— Neil Gaiman