Constructs Quote by Neil Gaiman

Stories are like relics, part of an undiscovered preexisting world. The writer's job is to use the tools in his or her toolbox to…

— Stephen King

I never think of stories as made things; I think of them as found things. As if you pull them out of the ground.

— Stephen King

Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.

— Stephen King

Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There's the magic of it.

— Neil Gaiman

Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.

— Kate Forsyth

What's the use of stories that aren't even true?

— Salman Rushdie

Any carefully planned thing destroys the creativity. You can't think your way through a story; you have to live it. So, you don't build…

— Ray Bradbury

Good stories are constructed, not found,

— Warren Spector

What one wants to do with stories is screw them up.

— William H. Gass

Myths are the prototype for all stories. When we write a story on our own it can't help but link up with all sorts…

— Haruki Murakami

Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.

— Roberto Calasso

As human beings, it's good to build stories.

— Thomas Tuchel