A good thing Quote by David Macaulay

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

— Flannery O'Connor

I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have…

— Stephen Greenblatt

Most of my books came from when I was telling stories.

— Robert Munsch

I'd thought I'd constructed a really wonderful book, and the teacher told me that my story basically began on page fifty, and that I…

— Rich Ferguson

I learned that books could be collected, that they were important enough to keep and that a story that seemed to be over could…

— Ramona Koval

For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The point of what I do is that it doesn't really matter what a book or a story is as long it moves you,…

— James Frey

I always find with my stories that the way they start is that I just get so interested in a person that I'm compelled…

— Michael Lewis

Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story…

— Umberto Eco

I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that…

— Bob Schieffer

I've always wanted to write a book. And it turned out that it was more about finding a story that I felt I was…

— Hank Green

I'm endlessly intrigued by stories, and I love helping someone to formulate his or her story. I can drift off when I'm reading pure…

— Andrew Solomon