About Quote by Ronald Frame

First and foremost, it's got to be on the page. It starts with the writing.

— Miguel Ferrer

There are some people who have been reading me for years, and they keep saying kind things about the writing. That's what you're writing…

— Elmore Leonard

By Cunning & Craft is a masterpiece of writing about writing. If, like Scheherazade, you had to spin out a story under threat of…

— Nora Gallagher

What you're normally doing as a writer is trying to find the narrative.

— Joan Didion

We start out talking about the story, trying to figure out who is who and what should happen, taking notes the whole time. Then…

— Phil Foglio

Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.

— Eudora Welty

Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a…

— Kim Edwards

The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination and give…

— Elizabeth Bowen

The story is always better than your ability to write it.

— Robin McKinley

A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories…

— James Patterson

My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone.

— James Patterson

I'm more interested in writing about the personal stories of people. Sometimes I don't agree with them.

— Patterson Hood