Believe Quote by Ernest Gaines

I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better than something…

— John Irving

Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something…

— Malcolm Cowley

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

— Wilkie Collins

As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from…

— Anonymous

“A good fiction writer can write any character or any story that she wants to write. The importance, IMO, is a burning desire to…

— Suzanne Brockmann

The characters write the plot. Their natures do.

— Norman Rush

I think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the world they…

— Salman Rushdie

Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.

— Italo Calvino

Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.

— Anonymous

I think you tell the story that has to be told. You tell the story that's the truth. You tell the story that readers…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

When we tell stories about things that are important - love, fear, beauty - we change the way people think about the world. Writers…

— Theodora Goss

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

— H. W. Brands