Doe Quote by Max Lucado

Sometimes a story grabs hold of you and won't let go.

— Megan Chance

For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Every person you meet has a story.

— Laura Lippman

My desire as a storyteller is to always catch the readers off guard; to give them something they aren't expecting, and take them in…

— Chris Claremont

If somebody is in a story, they need to be there for a reason, and not just to set up somebody else's story.

— Joss Whedon

If a story is in you, it has to come out.

— William Faulkner

Often, the stories are very much like trust falls. You fall, and you hope the story's going to catch you.

— Etgar Keret

With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk

— Herbert Gold

Stories twist and turn and grow and meet and give birth to other stories. Here and there, one story touches another, and a familiar…

— Marcus Sedgwick

“Yeah, apparently this chick didn’t know-“ He held up a hand. “Thank you, but I came to hear your story, not theirs,” he took…

— Melanie Fair

Tales are sometimes written in order to relate to real life situations that people have.

— Saaif Alam

Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader's attention.

— Ted Naifeh