Ends Quote by Etty Hillesum

Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.

— Don Roff

For me, the single word "God" suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.

— Andre Breton

I'm not much of a storyteller with words!

— Brad Mehldau

If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand…

— Roland Barthes

God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.

— Eugene H. Peterson

American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know…

— Neil Gaiman

The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, and religious scripture a collection of honourable, but…

— Albert Einstein

“Few words have been misunderstood more than “love,” perhaps with the exception of “God”

— Akemi G

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by…

— Roddy Doyle

“In the beginning the word was with God; all explanations, physical and moral, rested on the divine. And now for storytellers, even though those…

— Jill Patton Walsh

I use a lot of different words for God - infinite intelligence, primordial, perfection or universal creativity. All of these, to me, are God.…

— Alex Grey

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest…

— John Ruskin