Littles Quote by Lydia Davis

I don't think I did write any poems to fill narrative gaps. Not consciously, anyway. As much as possible, I try to discover my…

— James Arthur

I've always thought my poems told stories.

— Douglas Dunn

My stories are of gas chambers, shootings, electrified fences, torture, scorching sun, mental abuse, and constant threat of death. But they are also stories…

— Livia Bitton-Jackson

I think that, as a writer, while it's your job to construct stories, you have to navigate your way through them with your heart.

— Abi Morgan

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel,

— Alice Munro

Ideas for stories come in really different terms and really different ways for me. Sometimes they're from books, sometimes they're just kind of out…

— Brian Evenson

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.

— Isabel Allende

The writing itself is the thing that generates stories for me.

— Alice McDermott

My stories are often a little mysterious.

— Chris Van Allsburg

I'm always writing across the same themes. But with short stories, I'm doing something different than with novels. In some ways, they're coming from…

— Lynn Coady

When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write…

— Lauren DeStefano