Cutting Quote by Ken Follett

Literature is about telling stories.

— Amos Oz

I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that are half…

— Alice Lowe

I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story that orbits…

— Matthew Healy

It is my belief that we as human beings have a need to tell stories - I think it's evolutionary. So you can think…

— Aleksandar Hemon

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

— Eudora Welty

I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we're not writing journalism when we're…

— Edward Hirsch

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

— Quentin Tarantino

You spend so much time as a writer telling straight and linear stories.

— Nathan Englander

“Yeah, apparently this chick didn’t know-“ He held up a hand. “Thank you, but I came to hear your story, not theirs,” he took…

— Melanie Fair

A lot of people who want to see the short story have a renaissance of readership - they tend to think of short stories,…

— Lorin Stein

Let the cut tell the story. Otherwise you have not got dramatic action, you've got narration.

— David Mamet

Telling a story is like trying to eat grapes with a fork. It's always trying to get away from you. And if you're a…

— Brent Weeks