Life Quote by Isaac Bashevis Singer

A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.

— Shekhar Kapur

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of…

— Eudora Welty

A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to…

— Flannery O'Connor

A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

— Donald Miller

Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative,…

— Anne Enright

A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating,…

— Lorrie Moore

Telling a story is the way of exploring so many different things - human behavior, society, whatever existence.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

The meaning of the story is the story.

— Flannery O'Connor

I think a story is an attention grabber. I think it's a truth conveyor. Those are two great features of a good story.

— Max Lucado

Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.

— Nicholas Sparks

The most basic definition of a story is 'Somebody wants something and something's in his way,' and I'm more likely to be engaged if…

— Mark Waid

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