Ability Quote by Michael Scott

All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.

— Michael Kimmelman

I think the deepest thing is that many fiction writers tell stories but are not elegant writers. But, we're not writing journalism when we're…

— Edward Hirsch

Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.

— Richard Denney

We are living in an era of such interesting new forms, and certainly narrative non-fiction has emerged as a major form. People who are…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions.

— Richard Flanagan

Evidently, there are many great American writers. But sometimes it can feel as though American fiction is dominated by relatively linear narrative form, with…

— Katie Kitamura

If you ask me now, I think every single writer whose work I've read has had some influence upon me, and I continue to…

— Vera Nazarian

The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

An author must learn the principles of good storytelling only in order to write better from the heart.

— Uri Shulevitz

A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories…

— James Patterson

The power of story is potent and that's why historical fiction can be an extraordinarily significant way of teaching people logical truth propositions, moves…

— Hank Hanegraaff