Thinking Quote by David Mccandless

I think that, as a writer, while it's your job to construct stories, you have to navigate your way through them with your heart.

— Abi Morgan

I feel like handling a narrative in fiction is a wonderful way to teach stories that then open a pathway to reality and understanding.

— Amy Landecker

It's what people have always done. They have always told stories, put on plays. It's characters and narrative and thought and context and resolution…

— Ken Loach

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

I don't teach narrative theory by itself anymore, but I kind of use it when critiquing student manuscripts. So, it works its way in…

— Rob Roberge

My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone.

— James Patterson

Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever try this…

— Dennis Lehane

I like the story writing process. I usually use someone who has been trained for structure to take the story that I actually want,…

— Curtis Jackson

In writing practice, there's no direction. You enter your own mind and follow it where it takes you. We have a great need to…

— Natalie Goldberg

For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel,

— Alice Munro

Good writing is about finding and exploiting anecdotes that resonate with the reader. In storytelling, it's OK if you only make one point, as…

— Ben Clymer

I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then it is…

— Etgar Keret