Books Quote by Sara Zarr

Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.

— Michael Shermer

There are patterns because we try to find them. A desperate attempt at order because we can't face the terror that it might all…

— Lauren Beukes

A pattern is an idea that has been useful in one practical context and will probably be useful in others.

— Martin Fowler

A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out…

— Diane Johnson

There are things the story must have or else look incomplete. And these will almost automatically present themselves. When they don't, you are in…

— Chinua Achebe

“The effect your readers want is for what they read to trigger in them the sights and sounds and smells of what's happening in…

— Ray Rhamey

“The patterns we perceive are determined by the stories we want to believe.”

— John Verndon

It's hard to tell if anyone's interested in reading a serialized story. But it's interesting to put in a cliffhanger each week. That was…

— Daniel Clowes

The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the fictional process…

— Bruce Chatwin

What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story.

— Stephen Graham Jones

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

— Sushan

Theme is great for people who like to approach stories that way, but it's an organizing principle that helps us write a story that…

— Kurt Busiek