Quote by Patrick Ness

“Uncertainty is as good a way as any to kill a story.”

— Sidney Zion

“A really good story does not answer everything. After all, life doesn't answer everything. There remain ambiguities. There remains room for doubt.”

— Isaac Asimov

“We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much…

— Patrick Ness

“What can you do with a person who says that he is absolutely uncertain about everything, and that he is absolutely certain about that?”

— Idries Shah

“He only tells the story once but you see it from about 8 points of view, you have to pay attention the whole time…

— Helen DeWitt

“No matter how much planning you do the story will always tell itself the way it wants to be told.”

— Stoo Goff

“There's something about uncertainty...when things can go either way that make you secretly hope for the whole thing to self-destruct.”

— Justine Erler

“ know what you want. You want a story that won’t surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won’t make you…

— Yann Martel

“There's many a man who never tells his adventures, for he can't hope to be believed.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Just when a man makes a decision that everything he's believed his whole life is a lie, something comes along tempting him to believe…

— Brent Weeks

“I'd rather have a uncertainty than certainty. I don't want to know what's going to happen. It can't be good.”

— Colleen Hoover

“assume we know how the story ends. Certainty is the enemy of growth.”

— Mark Manson