Definitions Quote by Jodi Picoult

A story is not the same thing when it ends as it was when it began.

— Eudora Welty

People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that…

— Steven Spielberg

After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change…

— Sarah Addison Allen

Every story is flawed, every story is subject to change. Even after it is set down to print, between covers of a book, a…

— Michelle Richmond

Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can't…

— Nicholas Sparks

When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness,…

— Margaret Atwood

Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that…

— M. John Harrison

All stories are just stories of a character changing.

— Tom King

A story is an end in itself. It is not written to teach, sell, explain or destroy anything. It is not written even to…

— Ayn Rand

With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working…

— William Faulkner

It's the form it takes when it comes out the other side, of course, that gives a story something unique--its life. The story, in…

— Eudora Welty

I think when we get to a place that this is not the story, that everyone's story is a part of the story, then…

— Ava DuVernay