Mean Quote by George Saunders

Why will people persist in reading strange meanings into the simplest of story? Is it not enough that a writer can entertain for a…

— Margaret Mitchell

A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.

— Marcus Sedgwick

“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 meaning of a story should go on expanding for the reader the more he thinks about it, but meaning cannot be captured in…

— Flannery O'Connor

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

— John Edgar Wideman

“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

The notion that a story has a message assumes that it can be reduced to a few abstract words, neatly summarized in a school…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Each story presents a mystery that has to be solved in the process of writing. When I'm at work on a story, I'm completely…

— Carol Windley

Considerations of plot do a great deal of heavy lifting when it comes to long-form narrative - readers will overlook the most ham-fisted prose…

— Lynn Coady

It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little…

— Daniel Kahneman

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

— Flannery O'Connor

I don't pare down much. I write the beginning of a story in a notebook and it comes out very close to what it…

— Lydia Davis