Buying Quote by Holly Valance

If it's a good story, it's a good story, and it draws readers in.

— H. W. Brands

The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to the point…

— Robin McKinley

When I read any book, if it's really good I get lost in the writing whether it's fiction or non-fiction. I'm in the story…

— Jeff Feuerzeig

On the one hand I wonder, Was this really my story to tell? On the other hand, I just wanted the story to be…

— Kathryn Stockett

People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people…

— Karin Slaughter

I'm not really a good reader. What I mean is, I think I'm not one of those people who can read a story and…

— Donald Ray Pollock

[It] was written and sold. I knew it was a strong story because I cared about it and believed in it. I had no…

— Orson Scott Card

People resist and fight against things that are new that they haven't seen before, especially if they make them uncomfortable. But fiction is a…

— Gail Simone

I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.

— Henning Mankell

A great story poorly told doesn't do anybody any good at all, and nobody wants to hear it, and nobody wants to read it.…

— Jason Isbell

With the first novel, I had to tell myself, 'No one is ever going to read it, so you might as well just write…

— Celeste Ng

If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.

— Jennifer Egan