Also Quote by Sarah Kay

In those early days, the important thing was the happy ending. I did not tolerate unhappy endings - for my heroines, anyway. And later…

— Alice Munro

Only after a while did it occur to me (in spite of the chilly silence which surrounded me) that my story was not of…

— Milan Kundera

When I start, I have a feeling for the characters, and maybe the shape of the story. Sometimes I might even have the last…

— Paul Auster

Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.

— Jesse Williams

It's funny - for a long time, I didn't know I was writing a book. I was writing stories. For me, each story took…

— Molly Antopol

The story of my life is not over because of some bad lucks,bad days,difficult situations,i still have a lot of chapters to write..so it's…

— Bakare

I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not. I can't choose any one scene and say, 'Oh, this is exactly…

— Cecily von Ziegesar

I like to think of what happens to characters in good novels and stories as knots--things keep knotting up. And by the end of…

— Terry McMillan

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself

— Alice Hoffman

My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world…

— Anonymous

Strip away the morphing landscapes and rips in the space-time continuum, and my stories are about things that novels have always been about: love…

— Steve Erickson

Anytime I feel like I am beginning to explain the plot or characters too much my stomach churns. I like stories that let the…

— Charles Forsman