Said 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

The meaning of the story is the story.

— Flannery O'Connor

Everything we say is a story. But nothing we say is just a story.

— Anne Fortier

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

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

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

— Yorgos Lanthimos

What's important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can never change.…

— Pat Conroy

I think a story is an attention grabber. I think it's a truth conveyor. Those are two great features of a good story.

— Max Lucado

Stories are told over time, and so they naturally accrue meanings.

— John Edgar Wideman

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

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

A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story…

— Katherine Anne Porter