Darkness Quote by Martin Scorsese

Don't go into great detail describing places and things, unless you're Margaret Atwood and can paint scenes with language. You don't want descriptions that…

— Elmore Leonard

“Storytellers tell stories, of course, but they aren't alone in doing so. The dawn tells a story; so does the sun as it arcs…

— Edward Myers

I'm not much of a storyteller with words!

— Brad Mehldau

Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.

— Eudora Welty

“Sensory experience should not be draped on top of the story as sort of a last-minute decoration. Done right, it is woven into the…

— Douglas Wilson

“When I began writing this story, I thought I had some idea of what it was about. I was wrong. In my life writing…

— Richard Paul Evans

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.

— W. Somerset Maugham

You can't tell any kind of a story without having some kind of a theme, something to say between the lines.

— Robert Wise

“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader, not the fact that it’s raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.” The”

— E. L. Doctorow

“You would like to read, but somehow the rain gets into the book, too; not literally, and yet it really does, the letters are…

— Sándor Márai

I'm trying to tell the story in the most clear, concise, and truthful way, taking those everyday words and phrases and capturing them in…

— Jay-Z

Literature is about telling stories.

— Amos Oz