Able Quote by Ian Mcewan

In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world...It seemed so obvious…

— Ian Mcewan

“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell him things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence…

— Ira Glass

When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.

— Markus Zusak

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.

— Robert McKee

The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination and give…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“...There is no such thing as a story. The words on paper are only instructions used by each reader to create a story. The…

— Damon Knight

“It’s humbling, though, to think of all the stories that used to be, when they were at their best - before they were stories,…

— Paul Glennon

With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working…

— William Faulkner

“Sometimes a story catches your imagination so much it has to be told. That is what I love about writing. It lets the images…

— S.E. Smith

“The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ... It was like a piece…

— Haruki Murakami

The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.

— W. Somerset Maugham