Character Quote by George V. Higgins

You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.

— Zoe Kazan

I think you tell the story that has to be told. You tell the story that's the truth. You tell the story that readers…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

The story is not in the plot but in the telling.

— Anonymous

There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you…

— Margaret Atwood

There are things the story must have or else look incomplete. And these will almost automatically present themselves. When they don't, you are in…

— Chinua Achebe

You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.

— Alice Munro

If they're going to write a story they're going to write the story whether it's true or not

— Mary-Kate Olsen

The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going to tell you…

— Sandra Cisneros

I'm not first and foremost interested in story and the what-happens, but I'm interested in who's telling it and how they're telling it and…

— Amy Hempel

Let the cut tell the story. Otherwise you have not got dramatic action, you've got narration.

— David Mamet

The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.

— Vanna Bonta

You're trying to bring a character to an audience, and tell stories. That's what we're all trying do.

— Jonny Lee Miller