Bold Quote by Dennis Sharpe

“you have to be careful with the stories you tell. And you have to watch out for the stories that you are told.”

— Thomas King

“I trust my characters. They know their stories better than I do.”

— Rayne Hall

“You think you know how a story begins, or how it's going to turn out, especially when it's your own. You don't.”

— Edan Lepucki

“Stories are only as good as the perspective they are heard from. Listen with an open mind, and the world will unfold before you.”

— J B Jensen

“You know your characters are truly alive, when they start to write their own story and take you to places you didn't expect.”

— Joanne McDonnell

“Let the story settle inside you. Let it move and twist around until you see what it has to say to you.”

— Patti Callahan Henry

“Keeping up the fiction. You have to keep it up, sometimes, no matter how you feel.”

— Stephen King

“Stories give you a way to see things. A way to understand the events of your life. Even if you don't realize it while…

— Matthew Kirby

“Many times when I read a book, I want to savor each word, each phrase, each page, loving the prose so much, I don’t…

— Lisa Schroeder

“I read the stories I've been told in my own way and make a narrative of them. Narrative is a chain of links, and…

— Siri Hustvedt

“Reading is one way I cope. I go somewhere else for a while and submerge myself in the character's problems instead of my mine.”

— Stephanie Lawton

“If you have a story inside you but don't know where to start, look within and write from the heart, for the heart will…

— Shanda Trofe Write from the Heart