Ambiguity Quote by Ron Carlson

“It is not my job to explain the story or understand the story or reduce it to a phrase or offer it as being…

— Ron Carlson

“A story is about a single moment in a character's life when a definitive choice is made, after which nothing is the same.”

— John L'Heureux

Every work [of literature] has both a situation and a story. The situation is the context or circumstance, sometimes the plot; the story is…

— Vivian Gornick

“Sometimes a story does not make immediate sense—one has to listen and keep it in one’s heart, in one’s blood, until the day it…

— Ishmael Beah

A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

— Donald Miller

“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and…

— Gregorio C. Brillantes

“And yet, for a writer of fiction, part of the heart remains that of a stranger, for what we are trying to do is…

— Margaret Laurence

“Every story is an act of trust between a writer and a reader: each story, in the end, is social. Whatever a writer sets…

— Barry Lopez

I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.…

— Jose Saramago

“Accurate and questioning dramatic and written narratives that expose true human character, is the necessary glue of any intelligent, enduring and compassionate society.”

— Yon Walls

“Stories allow the writer and the reader to live in the same world”

— Irene Fantopoulos

“Literature supplements the lives of people and enables us to feel connected with the world. Shared stories blunt a sense of tragic aloneness, and…

— Kilroy J. Oldster