Ends Quote by Richard Russo

False stories used to affect me initially. But now, I've come to understand that if false stories are created, they are also forgotten in…

— Kriti Sanon

“Another mistake is presenting too much background information, and doing so in the first few pages. Writers should begin their stories with the event…

— Evan Marshall

False stories can be promulgated more easily when the people trying to tell true stories have been discredited - or when they are battered…

— Anne Applebaum

I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were…

— Mary Hart

With reference to the narrative of events, far from permitting myself to derive it from the first source that came to hand, I did…

— Thucydides

So many stories are determined before they start.

— Lionel Shriver

It's more important to get the story correct than to get it first.

— Ed Henry

Sometimes the best stories come from mistakes.

— Eve Torres

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

— Charles Colson

Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

— Gilda Radner

But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.

— Sarah Dessen

The story was the important thing and little changes here and there were really part of the story. There were even stories about the…

— Leslie Marmon Silko