Abstract Quote by Flannery O'Connor

My stories often begin with a situation or character rather than an insight about the human condition. It's always been difficult for me to…

— Karl Iagnemma

“We know how it ends practically before it starts. That´s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real…

— Anne Bishop

“There is a moment, in all my studying of movies and scripts, that I’d realized something elemental about human beings and why I’d been…

— C.J. Roberts

In the short stories - if I can make a very lumpy contrast - in the short stories I feel like the lives of…

— Charles D'Ambrosio

It's a challenge to express real life in dramatic terms. In an entirely "made-up" story, you are sometimes overwhelmed by the infinite possibilities.

— Daniel Clowes

“Our life is a blank book and we are the authors…. Write and shape your story as much as the mind can imagine it”

— Jason Calder

...a story should be like a roller coaster. That is to say before writing a really cruel scene, I have to lift the people's…

— Ryukishi07

We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder…

— Joan Didion

The story [for the western genre] is everything. Whether it's a book or a screenplay, the story drives everything. And if you just go…

— Clint Eastwood

“Our lives are a story shaped by circumstance, twisted by Fate, and ultimately judged by how we reacted.”

— Mary Marchese

In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end. You have…

— Dan Jenkins

When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages,…

— Paul Auster