Books Quote by Steven Erikson

My desire as a storyteller is to always catch the readers off guard; to give them something they aren't expecting, and take them in…

— Chris Claremont

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.

— Robert McKee

“What readers seek is an experience different from their own. Story is how readers dream. Story is what sells the book. The power of…

— Eddie Jones

“The inexperienced reader wants the essentially familiar combined with superficial novelty. Each story must have a slightly new setting or twist or "gimmick," though…

— Laurence Perrine

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

— Jeff Bezos

“A successful story always offers its audience more than a simple resolution of events. A story offers a dramatic affirmation of human needs that…

— Bill Johnson

The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.

— Joan Didion

Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle.

— Robert Olen Butler

“Stories set the inner life into motion, and this is particularly important where the inner life is frightened, wedged, or cornered. Story greases the…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

I never get the feeling that I've decided rationally, cold-bloodedly to write a story. On the contrary, certain events or people, sometimes dreams or…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and…

— John Cheever