Accomplish Quote by Nancy Kress

“Don’t forget the most basic reason we read: to discover what happens next. Make certain your devotion to pretty sentences and flesh-and-blood characters and…

— Benjamin Percy

What one's goal should be is just to become a better writer and to tell different kinds of stories.

— Diane Mott Davidson

You have to be precise. You have to be specific, but you want to be accurate. That is first and foremost. You want to…

— Wolf Blitzer

“One of my challenges [as a writer] is to make sure that I'm giving the reader details that the character cares about rather than…

— Jessica Andersen

The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that…

— Francine Rivers

“Character development is vital when writing a strong story. Weak characters make for weak stories.”

— Beem Weeks

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

— Eudora Welty

I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.

— Truman Capote

“Every story reads on multiple levels to convey a greater, more intricate message, and it's the reader's role to tap into that.”

— Veronika Carnaby

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

— L. Sprague de Camp

“To write an excellent novel, make the outcome of the story matter to the reader through the evolving relationships between well-designed characters.”

— Martin Sandforth

My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.

— Etgar Keret