About Quote by Orhan Pamuk

I have lots of objects. Every object has a story, which makes me think I should write a story about every object.

— Michelle Stuart

Once I have the idea for a story. I start collecting all kinds of helpful information and storing it in three-ring notebooks. For example,…

— Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

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

With a bucket of Lego, you can tell any story. You can build an airplane or a dragon or a pirate ship - it's…

— Christopher Miller

Every object tells a story if you know how to read it.

— Henry Ford

I'm not like a Sears Catalog of ideas. I don't have that many ideas. I've more or less written them over the years. Usually,…

— Brian Helgeland

In making up stories, as in reading stories, I could create a contained world in which an experience is shared in its entirety.

— Claire Messud

That's been my main interest for the last 15 years, is to really make sure the story and the characters take precedence over everything…

— Daniel Clowes

If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of…

— Thomas Perry

I work very hard on finding good characters who can explain things to me, and I use them to help tell the story. I…

— Michael Pollan

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

— Etgar Keret

Any time I put together a story collection, I don't know what it's going to look like overall - or even what the title…

— Brian Evenson