Punch line Quote by Lou Ann Walker

“A good story is like a well-placed punch: quick, effective, and impossible to ignore.”

— R L Raymond

“A story only wants to be told. Don't stand in its way.”

— Aleks Canard

“Sometimes the rules of writing get in the way of a good story told.”

— Jason E. Hodges

“First time I got punched in the face, I was like, 'Oh no!' but then I was like, 'This is a story.”

— Troy Barnes

“If you were waiting for a sign that you’re meant to be a writer… THIS IS IT.”

— M. Kirin

“The sign said don’t do it, so naturally I did it. Signs are always saying stuff in a silent way.
 Writing is a way…

— Jarod Kintz

“All I'm saying is that there is more to life than the main story. Check out the notes in the margins because maybe they're…

— Isabelle Rowan

“A story is a story, and one may glean from it what one likes. Good sense need not enter into it.”

— G. Willow Wilson

“Between the lines of every story there is another story, and that is one that is never heard and can only be guessed at…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“...there is more to life than the main story. Check out the notes in the margins because maybe they're even more important.”

— Isabelle Rowan

“...reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“You think you know how a story begins, or how it's going to turn out, especially when it's your own. You don't.”

— Edan Lepucki