Imposing Quote by Michael Kimmelman

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

— David Hare

All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.

— Michael Scott

“... a writer concocts a different story for every reader.”

— Mike Bryan

“Every novel is brand-new. It’s never been written before in the history of the world. At the same time, it’s merely the latest in…

— Thomas C. Foster

I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative.

— E. L. Doctorow

Every 'Observer' writer wants to be a novelist.

— Jared Kushner

Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.

— Charles Stross

In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the…

— Adam Johnson

On the whole, stories don't write themselves.

— Neil Gaiman

“Each story in its own right is a book.”

— n/a

What writers do is they tell their own story constantly through other people's stories. They imagine other people, and those other people are carrying…

— Tobias Wolff

We are all at the center of our own narrative, but it's a narrative that changes every time we retell it.

— Ruth Ware