Quote by Michael Crichton

The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your…

— Vincent Cassel

“ALL WRITERS ARE READERS, BUT NOT IN REVERSE.”

— DDSherman

“Fiction merely allows us a glimpse of the alternative.”

— Anthony Horowitz

“The writer ultimately tires of the subject's self-serving story, and substitutes a story of his own.”

— Janet Malcolm

“True stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they…

— Siri Hustvedt

“Identifying the source of our personal narratives helps us to release its negative aspects and re-frame it in ways that promote wholeness.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Instead of writing backwards over what had happened, giving structure and meaning to his story, he wrote forwards, slipping into troubling futures.”

— Alan McCluskey

“Two things can keep the common reader going, argument or story. (Both are always involved, however subtly, in good fiction.)”

— John Gardner

“Characters who simply have goals opposed by others do not create the effects of a story.”

— Bill Johnson

“in order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent.”

— Anne Lamott

“Opposites are not always contradictions they can be complimentary.”

— Steven Redhead

The way a story makes an argument is quite different from the way a persuasive essay does it. Emotional truth and the logic of…

— Ken Liu