Books Quote by Richard Denney Download Open image “Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.” — Richard Denney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Stories Storytelling Writing
All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability. — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Ultimately ... it's not the stories that determine our choices, but the stories that we continue to choose. — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer. — Jean Little Copy Share Image
What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it. — David Simon Copy Share Image
“I'm not trying to please anyone. I'm just trying to write a damn book.” — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
“I think you’ve forgotten that this place holds a lot more than just betraying Hobgoblins. Call upon the spirits, summon fairies, raise the dead!… — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
“I love you, Lance." He rattles the frame of the window and reaches out at me. I guess that's his way of saying "I… — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
“The great thing about writing fiction is that you can do whatever the fuck you want, go as far as you are willing to… — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
“cherish your creative spark, because there's no one else who can light it back up for you when it burns out.” — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and don't get… — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned. — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
“Ive wanted to be with Lance Tanner since the sixth grade, but that was so not going to happen since he's a zombie now.” — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
“Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.” — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
“I didn't even notice that my shoes were full of mud by the time I reached the rocky shore. There was ragged yellow police… — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
“Your fight is long from over, Deon. More of your kind will come... and they will come for you.” — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
