Distilled Quote by Raymond Chandler

A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Good stories are constructed, not found,

— Warren Spector

A great story poorly told doesn't do anybody any good at all, and nobody wants to hear it, and nobody wants to read it.…

— Jason Isbell

You need a story to displace a story.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A good story needs only a good storyteller.

— Richard Bausch

What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is all a…

— Joy Williams

An author must learn the principles of good storytelling only in order to write better from the heart.

— Uri Shulevitz

Every good story needs a complication. We learn this fiction-writing fundamental in courses and workshops, by reading a lot or, most painfully, through our…

— Monica Wood

“Stories that do not signal or illustrate a change in wisdom, growth or circumstance do not fulfill the basic requirements of a story worth…

— Rob Parnell

What's the use of stories that aren't even true?

— Salman Rushdie

Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.

— James Robertson

The story is always better than your ability to write it.

— Robin McKinley