Difficult Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

You find most of the interesting stories are the ones that are slightly harder to get made.

— Jim Sturgess

I don't believe that anything's totally invented... If you're completely inventing a story, there wouldn't be an urge to tell it.

— Helen Garner

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

— Raymond Chandler

There is nobody so weak of invention that cannot make some little stories to villify his enemy.

— Joseph Addison

It's hard to invent a new thing, and it's just as hard to invent another new thing.

— Steve Ballmer

Not an easy story but an important one. Compelling, powerful and engaging.

— Eric Walters

I'm not particularly inventive. If you left me in а room and told me to write a novel, I wouldn't be able to do…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Because we humans find stories such fascinating things, it’s all too easy to get interested in the story for its own sake, and lose…

— Steve Denning

The benefit of having a story that takes place in the real world is that you don't have to invent the real world. It…

— Travis Beacham

[The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.

— Steven Spielberg

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

— Thomas A. Edison

Good stories are constructed, not found,

— Warren Spector