Quote by Eudora Welty

Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say on the…

— Eudora Welty

“Pay close attention when people tell you stories. At their core, every story you've ever heard comes down to two things. Someone goes on…

— Morgan Matson

“I follow where the story goes. Always. Every time. Sometimes it goes places where I'm not comfortable... it's at those times that I just…

— Dennis Sharpe

“Don’t forget the most basic reason we read: to discover what happens next. Make certain your devotion to pretty sentences and flesh-and-blood characters and…

— Benjamin Percy

“A good story is like a road. If it's well put together, you don't notice the road at all; you just enjoy the ride.…

— Ken MacGregor

“...stories want to be told. Stories have a power of their own ... you can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it…

— Angelica Banks

“This chapter is an attempt to share with you some insights about story listening and how to do it.”

— John S. Savage

“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

“It can be hard to see the important parts of your own story. It helps when someone listens and can see those parts for…

— Sophie Chen Keller

“A story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.”

— George Orwell

“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

“Sometimes a story does not make immediate sense—one has to listen and keep it in one’s heart, in one’s blood, until the day it…

— Ishmael Beah