Chance Quote by George Saunders

Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character.

— David Corbett

What I'm hoping to do though is to ground my extrapolations in specificity, and to make sure that the story I tell is deliberately…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

— Hannah Kent

The depth of any story is proportionate to the protagonist's commitment to their goal, the complexity of the problem, and the grace of the…

— Steve House

I feel like I do my best work when I am put into scenarios where there's some in-depth story to be told.

— Tommaso Ciampa

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

The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more…

— Dave Eggers

I think that when I'm telling a story, I'm doing the best I can to tell the story as fully as I can, and…

— Hilton Als

When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the…

— Flannery O'Connor

At some point if you had gone into all of our stories in depth that would've just kind of been all over the place.

— Ashley Greene

I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

— Leo Tolstoy

Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.

— Ernest Hemingway