Clauses Quote by Janet Fitch

I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

It's one thing to narrate a story and another thing to execute it.

— Vijay Antony

A story is ultimately a memory. It's important when you're telling a story to think about why this memory is a memory. You don't…

— Matt Besser

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

— Scott Turow

What's important is how the character drives the narrative.

— Tridha Choudhury

To some extent, each sentence has to be the whole story.

— Lyn Hejinian

A good sentence is a key . It unlocks the mind of the reader.

— Eric Hoffer

Sometime during your life—in fact, very soon—you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence can often…

— Anonymous

A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more…

— Karen Thompson Walker

“Writers use narratives to select from everything there is, and make contexts by putting the pieces into relation; that’s what writers do, they make…

— Paul Shepheard

It just seduces you when you read a story and your brain relates to it. You recognize or connect with it. You identify with…

— Danny Boyle

“At this point it may be helpful to remember the distinction that the narratologist Gérard Genette makes between story and narrative.46 A literary narrative…

— Ellen F. Davis