Audience Quote by Helen Oyeyemi

I truly believe that writing is a continuum--so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need…

— Chris Abani

“as Flannery O’Connor put it, “In the act of writing, one sees that the way a thing is made, controls and is inseparable from…

— Sarah Arthur

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.

— Howard Gordon

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 works when there's momentum, life behind the words. Some stories have this and others don't, and it's difficult to say why this…

— Mary J. Miller

Stories are one thing that will be constant in life. Whether told, written, reenacted they are a fundamental part of human nature.

— Jessica Shirvington

“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

... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.

— Gish Jen

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with…

— William Shatner

On a more technical level, a story takes a lot of words. And to generate words and phrases and images and so on, that…

— George Saunders

The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.

— Chuck Palahniuk

For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus what actually…

— Carol Bly