Circulation Quote by Raymond Carver

A little bit of gratuitous violence in a well-thought-out story is fine.

— Ray Wise

It's good for a story to have a strong style.

— Shaun Evans

If it's a good story, it's a good story, and it draws readers in.

— H. W. Brands

It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the objective dangers someone…

— Etgar Keret

Stories are wondrous things. And they are dangerous.

— Thomas King

A story should be good and characters should be well-rounded.

— Himani Shivpuri

I think that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.

— Erin Morgenstern

The stories that are too personally vulnerable to write are the ones that must be told.

— Mat Kearney

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

— Wilkie Collins

I just have to trust that the story is going to shake out in such a way that's going to be palatable to readers.

— Lynn Coady

I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.

— Colm Toibin