Enough Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust.

— Po Bronson

A novel should tell a story, be a pleasure to read, and at the same time it should be thought-provoking, even a bit instructive.

— Olga Tokarczuk

“Sometimes a story catches your imagination so much it has to be told. That is what I love about writing. It lets the images…

— S.E. Smith

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay…

— Hilary Mantel

“A good story defies the reader's expectations, and in doing so, brings them satisfaction.”

— Thomas Maltman

The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it…

— Paul Theroux

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.

— Robert McKee

The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the primitive craving…

— V. S. Pritchett

A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from…

— Ian Mcewan

“Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.”

— Federico Chini

Writing is not a searching about in the daily experience for apt similes and pretty thoughts and images… It is not a conscious recording…

— William Carlos Williams

“Perhaps writing a story or a novel was not something that should be done for money, or to win praise, but for the sheer…

— Vanessa Wu