People Quote by Lynda Barry

I think structure is so deep in us. We put it in stories we tell our friends or in emails we write. We want…

— Greta Gerwig

I'm a big believer that the structure of stories should reflect the content of the story.

— Noah Hawley

If you have a structure beforehand, you're sort of stuffing your story into a pre-assembled box. You don't want that to happen. What you…

— Colum McCann

“The better the story, the more engaged your users will be. Structure is how story engages the human brain”

— Donna Lichaw

I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the…

— Jess Walter

Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories.

— Yuval Noah Harari

My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.

— Harold Ramis

As human beings, it's good to build stories.

— Thomas Tuchel

“Structure doesn't make a story formulaic. The writer does.”

— Peter Arpesella

Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.

— Stephen King

We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in…

— Charlie Kaufman

Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters…

— Penelope Lively