About Quote by Lynda Barry

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

I didn't really have a major role in how it was described. I wanted it to be a collection of essays where each storyline…

— Chelsea Martin

I'm very interested in storytelling and anything that plays with structure.

— Matthew Bourne

A story is built on characters and reasons.

— Steven Amsterdam

Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.

— Eudora Welty

In school, you learn that there are only seven kinds of stories. There's man versus nature, man versus man, man versus himself, blah blah…

— Roberto Orci

I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the…

— David Maraniss

What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter.

— Sarah Monette

Telling a story is the way of exploring so many different things - human behavior, society, whatever existence.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay…

— Hilary Mantel

My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.

— Etgar Keret

I'm not thinking much about overall themes or preoccupations or anything like that. Instead I'm just trusting that, if I'm working hard, various notions…

— George Saunders