Information Quote by Roland Smith

What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter.

— Sarah Monette

The origin of each story is unique.

— Kate DiCamillo

“Originality is not writing the story that has never been told, but writing the stories only you can tell.”

— M. Kirin

“...There is no such thing as a story. The words on paper are only instructions used by each reader to create a story. The…

— Damon Knight

As a storyteller, you have the story that you tell, and you have the way you can tell it, and both are equally important.

— Noah Hawley

“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell him things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.

— Marcus Sedgwick

Stories are one thing that will be constant in life. Whether told, written, reenacted they are a fundamental part of human nature.

— Jessica Shirvington

The writer's genetic inheritance and her or his experiences shape the writer into a unique individual, and it is this uniqueness that is the…

— James Gunn

One of the key qualities of all stories is that they are made to be shared.

— Marco Tempest

The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told.…

— Paul Ricoeur

If you want to write something completely unique, you will probably fail or at best write something without redeeming value. The mind works in…

— Janet Morris