Because Quote by James Lasdun

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

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

I find it only natural for a storyteller to be interested in storytelling and, for anyone who spends the better part of his or…

— Norman Lock

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

We are living in an era of such interesting new forms, and certainly narrative non-fiction has emerged as a major form. People who are…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

Some people think that writers are innately solitary and that there's a kind of romance to that solitariness. I tend to think that what…

— Richard Ford

I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we're not writing journalism when we're…

— Edward Hirsch

I think the path to becoming a writer has become more through the novel. It's easier to get a novel published than a book…

— Jess Walter

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

— Thomas Berger

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes…

— Joan Didion

Stories often take their own course once you start to write them, especially when you have the benefit of a writers' room and a…

— Bryan Konietzko

I think a writer's first job is to entertain, even in novels: to tell a compelling story that pulls the reader along toward an…

— Noah Hawley