Beginning Quote by Victoria Hanley

“The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story”

— Brandt Legg

Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.

— Charles Stross

I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have…

— Stephen Greenblatt

Literature is about telling stories.

— Amos Oz

“You will and should do everything in your power to improve your actual writing skills. You’ll work hard to create characters that are compelling…

— James Dashner

The story is always better than your ability to write it.

— Robin McKinley

For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable in anticipatory…

— Anonymous

I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the…

— David Maraniss

You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a…

— Len Wein

There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who…

— Stephen King

“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

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of…

— Eudora Welty