Firsts Quote by John Irving

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final…

— Alice Munro

I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.

— Ken Follett

Try this experiment: Pick a famous movie - 'Casablanca,' say - and summarize the plot in one sentence. Is that plot you just described…

— Peter Greenaway

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

You must remember, all stories start somewhere.

— Drew Hayden Taylor

Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.

— Eudora Welty

I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.

— Ernest Hemingway

For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is…

— Ira Glass

“In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it happened.…

— Betty Smith

I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in turn changes…

— Vera Nazarian

Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

— Daniel Kahneman

“I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I…

— Ernest Hemingway