Assuming Quote by Hilary Mantel

Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.

— Brian Keene

Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in what you're…

— Bob Shacochis

I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then it is…

— Etgar Keret

Ideas for stories come in really different terms and really different ways for me. Sometimes they're from books, sometimes they're just kind of out…

— Brian Evenson

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

— Ted Rall

To write a story is to create a world of your own.

— Gza

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

— John Scott

Literature is about telling stories.

— Amos Oz

I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my…

— John Steinbeck

I don't know if anything I write will endure, but I do try to write it as a narrative that will not only challenge…

— Jonathan Kozol

Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.

— Eudora Welty

When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally…

— Robert Morgan