Big Quote by Sheila Heti

Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The…

— Ashwin Sanghi

I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.

— Rachel Weisz

I'm a storyteller. I feel like the issue of discourse is an important one because there's a lot of political and ideological discourse that…

— Ayad Akhtar

What writers do is they tell their own story constantly through other people's stories. They imagine other people, and those other people are carrying…

— Tobias Wolff

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

Why write stories? To join the conversation.

— Dorothy Allison

I had a teacher once who said, "If you are going to write fiction, you should only read poetry." I have always been interested…

— Sam Lipsyte

Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.

— D. J. MacHale

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

— Jessica Shirvington

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.

— Naomi Shihab Nye

I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing…

— Neil Gaiman

In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions…

— Donna Tartt