Story Quote by Michael K. Brantley

I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence at almost every other…

— Joseph Epstein

The public takes from a writer, or a writing, what it needs and lets the remainder go. but what they take is usually what…

— Charles Bukowski

A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living.

— James A. Michener

“To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put ourself in their story, or figure out how…

— Rebecca Solnit

“God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me specifically into the story, and He put us in specifically with the sunsets…

— Donald Miller

“Sara,” she said, “do you think you can bear living here?” Sara looked round also. “If I pretend it’s quite different, I can,” she…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.

— Paul Kingsnorth

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs. The threads can always…

— Clive Barker

“When the anthropologist asked the Kwakiutl for a map of their coast, they told him stories: "Here? Salmon gather. Here? Sea otter camps. Here…

— Ralph Metzner

“Once again she was struck by a sense of profound familiarity. She knew this place. In the story that her mother used to tell,…

— Kate Morton

“Until a few days ago, humans had been little more than legend to him, and now here he was in their world. It was…

— Laini Taylor

“There is enormous pressure on you to take a place in the story your culture is enacting in the world— any place at all.”

— Daniel Quinn