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I'm a big believer that the structure of stories should reflect the content of the story.

— Noah Hawley

I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative.

— Robert Wilson

For me, the main inspiration to write a story or novel is the voice of its central character, or the narrative voice of the…

— Scott Bradfield

I didn't really have a major role in how it was described. I wanted it to be a collection of essays where each storyline…

— Chelsea Martin

My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.

— Anita Desai

A story is built on characters and reasons.

— Steven Amsterdam

We want to tell unique, individual, discrete stories with a unique and discrete individual point of view.

— Travis Knight

The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told.…

— Paul Ricoeur

It's true that writing can give new forms to concepts that existed previously with far less clarity, but in terms of the other half…

— Helen Oyeyemi

Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form for your…

— Truman Capote

For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of dialogue here,…

— Hilary Mantel

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay…

— Hilary Mantel