Character Quote by Flannery O'Connor

I don't want to be like other authors and say that there are only a few story lines in literature. A story is like…

— Svetlana Alexievich

Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.

— George Lucas

In my mind, there's usually a fairly definitive kind of narrative when I write. But I don't want to enforce that on other people.…

— Johnny Flynn

Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is perturbing my…

— Siegfried Lenz

Storytelling is more like a skin. You start with the outermost layer, what it's going to look like, then you kind of get deeper…

— Charlie Jane Anders

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

— Yorgos Lanthimos

I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative.

— Robert Wilson

It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The writing is…

— Hortense Calisher

The metaphor is the story, not the character.

— Kurt Busiek

I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.

— Ruth Ozeki

The metaphors exist for the stories.

— Kurt Busiek

As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from…

— Anonymous