Abstract Quote by Flannery O'Connor

A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to…

— Flannery O'Connor

Telling a story is like trying to eat grapes with a fork. It's always trying to get away from you. And if you're a…

— Brent Weeks

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

Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative,…

— Anne Enright

A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating,…

— Lorrie Moore

Much more than an entertaining set of exaggerated facts, fiction is a metaphoric method of describing, dramatizing and condensing historical events, personal actions, psychological…

— Tom Robbins

For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus what actually…

— Carol Bly

Telling a story is the way of exploring so many different things - human behavior, society, whatever existence.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes,…

— Jodi Picoult

“talking about the “meaning” of a story, we need to be careful not to diminish it, impoverish it. A story can say different things…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The word "story" is short for the word "history." They both have the same root and fundamentally mean the same thing. A story is…

— James M. Kouzes

To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will…

— Umberto Eco