Books Quote by Vivian Gornick

“It is not my job to explain the story or understand the story or reduce it to a phrase or offer it as being…

— Ron Carlson

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.

— Ron Carlson

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

Circumstances are the seeds of literature.

— Salvador de Madariaga

Everybody's in a situation; everybody has a story. It's about finding out why.

— Maxine Peake

“A story is about a single moment in a character's life when a definitive choice is made, after which nothing is the same.”

— John L'Heureux

“Writers use narratives to select from everything there is, and make contexts by putting the pieces into relation; that’s what writers do, they make…

— Paul Shepheard

Some stories doesn't need to be written, circumstances automatically narrates the scenes behind it.

— Sushan

Literature is about telling stories.

— Amos Oz

A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

— Donald Miller

“Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“A story evokes emotion and emotion forges a connection.”

— Blake Mycoskie