Compelling Quote by Richard Ford

Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories.

— Byron Katie

And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations…

— Chinua Achebe

Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense.

— Etgar Keret

Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you’re in the middle of it

— Nick Cave

None of us know where our stories come from. That's why writers make fun of people who ask us where we get our ideas...…

— Neil Gaiman

The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.

— Tom Wolfe

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

— Niels Bohr

I have a theory you shouldn't write a book unless you have something to say.

— Andrew Breitbart

Theories are just fantasies. And they change.

— Michael Crichton

To me a story is a story...I dont even think about where it might belong until long after its written.

— Stephenie Meyer

Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning…

— Cormac McCarthy

I'm drawn to a story partly based on the fact that it's something I might not be as familiar with.

— Brad Anderson