Attention Quote by Max Lucado

For me, a story's a story if people want to hear it; it's very much based on oral storytelling. And for me, a story…

— Sandra Cisneros

A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to…

— Flannery O'Connor

If it's a good story, it's a good story, and it draws readers in.

— H. W. Brands

A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating,…

— Lorrie Moore

Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a…

— Tahir Shah

The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence…

— Ira Glass

What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story.

— Stephen Graham Jones

A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we…

— Donald Miller

For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus what actually…

— Carol Bly

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.

— Robert McKee

Stories are attempts to share our values and beliefs. Storytelling is worthwhile when it tells what we stand for.

— Simon Sinek

A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story…

— Katherine Anne Porter