Accurate Quote by Neil Gaiman

“One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is…

— Neil Gaiman

If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a…

— Rebecca Solnit

“When you are writing a complicated story, you have got to have a map.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“The places and people in the following stories have been represented accurately to the best of my ability; yet my writing is supposed to…

— Eric Sloane

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

— Derrick Jensen

If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.

— Iain Sinclair

When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the…

— Ann Patchett

Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories…

— John Irving

From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done…

— Adam Savage

A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.

— Emma Donoghue

As a storyteller, you have the story that you tell, and you have the way you can tell it, and both are equally important.

— Noah Hawley