About Quote by Per Petterson

I say that glorious prose is a fine and laudable thing, but without an enthralling story, it's just so much verbal tapioca. Simply put,…

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

If it's a drama or comedy, it doesn't matter to me. I just want to like the writing.

— Jean Smart

I think each writer has to seek her most energetic prose style. She has to find a way to write so that nobody can…

— George Saunders

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

— Manuel Puig

My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone.

— James Patterson

“I've often been accused of harnessing genre strategies to mainstream ends. I do concede that relationships, characters, and introspection are my primary interest. The…

— Karen Joy Fowler

“The one thing is fiction in a novel and the other thing is reality. With fiction you don't make a fuss - you can…

— Anonymous

“Storytelling is shaped by two contrary, yet complementary, impulses—one toward brevity, compactness, artful omission; the other toward expansion, amplification, enrichment.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.

— Armistead Maupin

If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy, I've always written horror stories and monster stories, right…

— George R. R. Martin

I think, television and comics, what's appealing to me as a writer about both of those mediums is that they allow you to sort…

— Travis Beacham

I think readers either love or hate nonlinear storytelling, and it's true that it can be more difficult, both to write and to read.

— Chloe Benjamin