Quote by John Irving

“If a story is not about the hearer he [or she] will not listen . . . A great lasting story is about everyone…

— John Steinbeck

“Many of the best fantastic stories begin in a leisurely way, set in commonplace surroundings, with exact, meticulous descriptions of an ordinary background, much…

— Franz Rottensteiner

“What might sound like science fiction elsewhere in the world at DARPA was future science.”

— Annie Jacobsen

“And, of course, people are only interested in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen. And I here…

— John Steinbeck

“...of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen. And I here make…

— John Steinbeck

“And I here make a rule-a great and lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not…

— John Steinbeck

“Somewhere deep inside, his humanity had been shaken by something so unnatural, so foreign in its essence, his very being withdrew from it...”

— Tamara Rose Blodgett

“Instead, it is seeing people as unique creations in the universe with stories to tell that are fascinating because of their uniqueness.”

— Tim Hast

“A new book was not one of a number of similar objects, but was like an individual man, unmatched, and with no cause of…

— Marcel Proust

“Doc would listen to any kind of nonsense and turn it into wisdom. His mind had no horizon - and his sympathy had no…

— John Steinbeck

“And it's just dawned on me that I might be the author of my own story, but so is everyone else the author of…

— Jandy Nelson

“A novelist is a doctor who sees only terminal cases.”

— John Irving