Changes Quote by Sarah Monette

A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we…

— Donald Miller

What's important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can never change.…

— Pat Conroy

Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a…

— Tahir Shah

Stories are one thing that will be constant in life. Whether told, written, reenacted they are a fundamental part of human nature.

— Jessica Shirvington

A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to…

— Flannery O'Connor

Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something…

— Malcolm Cowley

Ideas for stories come in really different terms and really different ways for me. Sometimes they're from books, sometimes they're just kind of out…

— Brian Evenson

For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus what actually…

— Carol Bly

In writing ... remember that the biggest stories are not written about wars, or about politics, or even murders. The biggest stories are written…

— Susan Glaspell

A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating,…

— Lorrie Moore

I think a story is an attention grabber. I think it's a truth conveyor. Those are two great features of a good story.

— Max Lucado

With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working…

— William Faulkner