Because Quote by Jesse L. Martin

Shakespeare is so fundamental to the way we see story. A tremendous amount of narratives come from him - more than many authors are…

— Rebecca Serle

What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is all a…

— Joy Williams

I read a lot of detective stories because they always deliver. They give you a beginning, a middle, and an end - a resolution.…

— Robert Cormier

As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness.

— Greg van Eekhout

A good story is always a journey. It is about taking the journey, the people the hero meets along the way and how they…

— Michael Scott

The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular…

— Stephen King

If it's a good story, it's a good story, and it draws readers in.

— H. W. Brands

I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the…

— David Maraniss

I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those…

— George Eliot

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of…

— Ken Follett

Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to…

— Beau Willimon

From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or…

— Peter Straub