Chapters Quote by Michael Ende

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

Stories are told over time, and so they naturally accrue meanings.

— John Edgar Wideman

There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as…

— Jim Thompson

I'm a firm believer in the idea that there are a limited amount of human stories that we tell - there's about seven of…

— Keegan-Michael Key

I actually pushed the boundaries on how long a book like this [The Thorn and the Blossom] can be. The original plan called for…

— Theodora Goss

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

— Eudora Welty

There are millions of stories in the world, and several hundred of them good ones.

— Chauncey Depew

There are so many versions of every story because every storyteller tells the story differently.

— Tomm Moore

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.

— David Antin

Every object tells a story if you know how to read it.

— Henry Ford

“...There is no such thing as a story. The words on paper are only instructions used by each reader to create a story. The…

— Damon Knight

Words are how we think; stories are how we link.

— Christina Baldwin