Quote by Percival Everett

“as Flannery O’Connor put it, “In the act of writing, one sees that the way a thing is made, controls and is inseparable from…

— Sarah Arthur

“talking about the “meaning” of a story, we need to be careful not to diminish it, impoverish it. A story can say different things…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Because the meaning of a story does not lie on its surface, visible and self-defining, does not mean that meaning does not exist. Indeed,…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.”

— Flannery O'Connor

“For my purpose, the non-fiction form of abstract knowledge doesn’t interest me; the final, applied form of fiction, of story, does.”

— Ayn Rand

“You can't write any form of fiction unless you enjoy reading it. You must be sincere in your approach. It's no good despising the…

— Charlotte Bingham

“You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up.”

— Thomas Harris

“Without writers, stories would not be written, Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.”

— Angie-Marie Delsante

“no writing is a waste of time--no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work.”

— Brenda Ueland

“A writer's mind can never be empty.”

— Michael Acciarino

“The best fiction is often how we interpret our own lives and what we see as our common due. It is created usually as…

— Anne Edwards

“To my mind, the most important thing in any form of fiction is the human element, but only if it takes us beyond the…

— Graham Worthington