Books Quote by Harry Mathews

I think my narrative is actually pretty interesting if I step back from it and don't engage too much in it, personally or emotionally.

— Karyn Kusama

Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story

— Esther Freud

As a writer I'm essentially just trying to impersonate a first-time reader, who picks up the story and has to decide, at every point,…

— George Saunders

I've always been a big believer that you can use the elements of storytelling to bring the reader along and to hopefully illuminate a…

— David Grann

I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about…

— Patti Davis

Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later,…

— Michael Ondaatje

I'm one of the narrative-push people. I don't outline, I don't plan ahead. So I'm my first reader, telling myself the story as I'm…

— Donald E. Westlake

Ultimately why I do what I do is to allow the story to affect change in people in some way.

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they…

— Paul Auster

My desire as a storyteller is to always catch the readers off guard; to give them something they aren't expecting, and take them in…

— Chris Claremont

I have to pay attention to what I have felt and observed, then push these responses to an extreme while keeping the story within…

— Elizabeth Strout

I try to do the story the way I feel the story should be done, and how that folds into whatever larger sorts of…

— David Milch