Heart beating Quote by Lawrence Hill

“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”

— Anne Rice

“Your story isn’t over as long as you have breath in your lungs. What will your story say?”

— Nate Green

“As an author, I breathe life into each and every character within the stories that I write. But it is the reader who gives…

— Scott Borgman

“Sometimes a story does not make immediate sense—one has to listen and keep it in one’s heart, in one’s blood, until the day it…

— Ishmael Beah

“Writing is like breathing -- it is necessary for my survival.”

— Michelle C. Hillstrom

“A story is alive, as you and I are. It is rounded by muscle and sinew. Rushed with blood. Layered with skin, both rough…

— Cameron Dokey

“There's something appealing about a quiet story that has depth, that has the ability to reach out and connect people for a long time…

— Darien Gee

“Mine could not be a story about the building of character, but about its erosion, about the slow accumulation of small forces and events…

— Gonzalo Munevar

“Your story should open as a door to the reader, where the action has already begun and they have to run to keep up.”

— Davis Bunn

“Good stories bare the heart and soul of human beings.”

— Andrea Richesin

“You know your characters are truly alive, when they start to write their own story and take you to places you didn't expect.”

— Joanne McDonnell

“Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience.”

— Chuck Wendig