Language Quote by William S. Wilson

“Writers see the world differently. Every voice we hear, every face we see, every hand we touch could become story fabric.”

— Buffy Andrews

“Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")”

— William S. Wilson

“Every story reads on multiple levels to convey a greater, more intricate message, and it's the reader's role to tap into that.”

— Veronika Carnaby

“Sometimes the rules of writing get in the way of a good story told.”

— Jason E. Hodges

“I think that the direction in which a writer should look is around.”

— Dorothy Parker

“Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

“In the end, all that a writer has to pass on is not myth and anecdote, but scene and character, evoked in memorable prose. ”

— Will Blythe

“Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.”

— Federico Chini

“A writer is bound to have varying degrees of success, and I think that that is partly an issue of how central the burden…

— John Hersey

“Write down what your reader needs, no more, no less. Reading should be textured, but not obscure. Henry James could make an entire paragraph…

— Christopher T. Garry

“Writing a story, regardless of length, always begins with a single word.”

— Don Roff

“Stories hang from the trees, hive under the coffee table, gather like glass on the corners of the road. To pick them up one…

— Bonnie Friedman