Amusement Quote by Samuel Richardson

You want, whenever you're telling a story, to have a certain amount of range, and you want to be able to take the audience…

— Cliff Chiang

... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.

— Gish Jen

It's one thing to narrate a story and another thing to execute it.

— Vijay Antony

One has to be very selective about what is essential for driving the story and what isn't. You leave out some things that are…

— David Barron

These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act…

— Hari Kunzru

It is the nature of stories to leave out far more than they include.

— Marion Dane Bauer

Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.

— Tim O'Brien

...a story should be like a roller coaster. That is to say before writing a really cruel scene, I have to lift the people's…

— Ryukishi07

The point is, stories can be all lengths. Never underestimate the power of “less is more.

— Darynda Jones

Some stories doesn't need to be written, circumstances automatically narrates the scenes behind it.

— Sushan

“Good stories deserve a little embellishment.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

It is a great vehicle for storytelling, especially for a certain kind of exhaustively reported, painstakingly fact-checked, and beautifully produced narrative.

— Clara Jeffery