Becomes Quote by Jonathan Evison

In the writers' room, the challenge is always to tell interesting stories in unexpected ways, so we try to never limit ourselves in how…

— Nahnatchka Khan

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 have to challenge myself, and I have to challenge the reader. We should be weaving and working on new stories and not the…

— Brian Azzarello

With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk

— Herbert Gold

A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional…

— Steven Erikson

“Every story reads on multiple levels to convey a greater, more intricate message, and it's the reader's role to tap into that.”

— Veronika Carnaby

Writing the opening lines of a story is a bit like starting to ski at the steepest part of a hill. You must have…

— Marion Dane Bauer

Readers need to see themselves between the lines of the story.

— Karen Kingsbury

Short stories have no net. The writer cannot take a leisurely sixty pages to get things moving, or make a side trip onto a…

— Amy Bloom

You're always looking for some new way to tell the same story, but it's how they get to the happy end that is the…

— Lisa Kleypas

Although when I start a novel I know how it will begin and end, I like to let the people within the story take…

— Cecelia Ahern

“The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story”

— Brandt Legg