Quote by Stephenie Meyer

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

— Flannery O'Connor

A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.

— Ted Naifeh

Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story.…

— Martin McDonagh

If something wants to be a story, it will be.

— Scarlett Thomas

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

A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.

— Shekhar Kapur

A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story…

— Katherine Anne Porter

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

A story is not the same thing when it ends as it was when it began.

— Eudora Welty

If you ask me, the place that a story happens is as equal character. It's almost like an ecological viewpoint: These people are living…

— Mike Mills

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