Fall Quote by James Patterson

I think many people have wonderful stories inside them and the talent to tell those stories. But the writing life, with its isolation and…

— Ellen Ullman

I love seeing the light go on in aspiring writers' eyes when you point out ways to improve their prose or their story -…

— F. Paul Wilson

I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it…

— Jeff VanderMeer

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a…

— George Orwell

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

— John Scott

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 find most 'rules' about how to write a 'good story' confining, and I enjoy writing stories that don't look like stories at all…

— Ken Liu

The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. Im caught up in the story…

— Iris Johansen

There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!

— Ernest Hemingway

The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there…

— R. A. Lafferty

The stories I respect most aren't those with the rich, dense prose, but those which achieve a rich, deep effect with simple little nothing-sentences,…

— Stephen Graham Jones

Sometimes with certain writing, you feel like you've got to be literal, hit it hard on the nose, just to get the point across.…

— Chace Crawford