Acceptable Quote by Katherine Paterson

The word "story" is short for the word "history." They both have the same root and fundamentally mean the same thing. A story is…

— James M. Kouzes

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

History is ultimately storytelling. I think the more stories you write in life - and I've written a lot of screenplays, a lot of…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative,…

— Anne Enright

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of…

— Eudora Welty

A story works when there's momentum, life behind the words. Some stories have this and others don't, and it's difficult to say why this…

— Mary J. Miller

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.

— Howard Gordon

It's true that writing can give new forms to concepts that existed previously with far less clarity, but in terms of the other half…

— Helen Oyeyemi

For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus what actually…

— Carol Bly

Stories are told over time, and so they naturally accrue meanings.

— John Edgar Wideman

Storytelling is how history is passed. It's what our ancestors did, it's what everybody's done. It has to come back into a story because…

— Nikki Giovanni

Narrative stories are nothing but models of karma and causality - how one thing leads to another. And a lot of narrative fiction is…

— Jess Row