Books Quote by Erin Morgenstern

If it's a good story, it's a good story, and it draws readers in.

— H. W. Brands

What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story.

— Stephen Graham Jones

I think that, anybody with a strong will to tell a story, then that is fantastic. I think it's fantastic. I think sometimes people…

— John Lee Hancock

A great story poorly told doesn't do anybody any good at all, and nobody wants to hear it, and nobody wants to read it.…

— Jason Isbell

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should…

— Stephen King

“Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

I think a story is an attention grabber. I think it's a truth conveyor. Those are two great features of a good story.

— Max Lucado

I'll find something in what I read that snags my imagination in emotional terms; it resonates with me for reasons more complicated than just…

— Jim Shepard

I've been astonished how often, when I convince a writer to tell a story more straightforwardly and to tell it more simply and directly,…

— Alice Mattison

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

— Anne McCaffrey

“Great characters tell their own stories. The author just writes it down for them.”

— Molly Evangeline

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

— Thomas Maltman