Firsts Quote by Tobias Wolff

It's not always to the benefit of the story to have it so preordained.

— Daniel Woodrell

“It’s what my mother would say. She thinks a weightless story is better than one that’s too heavy.” “So. My story is a heavy…

— Diane Setterfield

The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.

— Tobias Wolff

Everything starts with a story.

— Joseph Campbell

I'm always excited to carry more and more weight and responsibility within a story.

— Kevin Durand

The story is the first thing and the last thing,

— Norman Rockwell

I never start with the story first, which is maybe obvious, because the narrative line of my films is really not that strong or…

— Jim Jarmusch

It's more important to get the story correct than to get it first.

— Ed Henry

The pressures to get the story first, if wrong, are greater sometimes than the pressures to get the story right, if late.

— Alastair Campbell

Even the most complicated stories start with a very simple premise.

— Chris Van Allsburg

The short story is a very natural mode of storytelling; most stories can be told quickly. I always think of them as like a…

— Kevin Barry

I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.

— Grace Paley