Books Quote by Fiona Barton

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The unread is always better than the unreadable.

— Oscar Wilde

“It seemed to me that people often let extraordinary stories pass through them quite unheeded.”

— Michelle Lovric

When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of…

— Sara Zarr

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for…

— Eudora Welty

Having an open dialogue, in any creative atmosphere, is really important to feeling free to tell the story the best way you can.

— Nick Jonas

No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must…

— Eudora Welty

I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.

— Sofia Coppola

As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know…

— Julianna Baggott

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

— Nadine Gordimer

The Curious Incident brims with imagination, empathy, and vision — plus it's a lot of fun to read.

— Myla Goldberg