Draws Quote by Susan Glaspell

The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.

— Susan Glaspell

“writing a story is dangerous more dangerous then anyone can know. Its planting small seeds of ideas into peoples minds. Some can grow and…

— Natalie Stein

The bigger the issue, the smaller you write. Remember that. You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's…

— Richard Price

What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter.

— Sarah Monette

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

To write a story is to create a world of your own.

— Gza

For me as a writer, the story has always taken precedence over everything else. I have never sat down to write with broad, sweeping…

— Khaled Hosseini

The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!

— Ford Madox Ford

You don't have to always write about big stuff. Writing is about expressing yourself, you know? It can be about small stuff, too.

— Mick Jones

Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.

— Eudora Welty

I think many writers write because it's a convenient way to explain themselves to themselves. We take the chaos and the turmoil and the…

— Armistead Maupin

I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer can best…

— Damien Chazelle