Desire Quote by Zzenn

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

— Blake Mycoskie

“Stories trace their roots to impassioned human interactions with the world. I always sense a storyline as an emotional yearning embedded in a deep…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“There is a moment, in all my studying of movies and scripts, that I’d realized something elemental about human beings and why I’d been…

— C.J. Roberts

“Good fantasy fiction: ... explores real human conditions through fantastic metaphors which universalize the characters' individual experiences to speak personally to us all.”

— Laura Resnick

“Life is full of disparate details arbitrarily joined together by dreams, pain and yearning. I do not long for sense, but I call for…

— Juhani Peltonen

“Writers’ never-ending quest involves investigating genuineness while carving out narrative nonfiction. They must strive to reach great truths by recounting untold lies with acute…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Psychic change, as Todorov has recognized, subverted the genre in another way, by revoking the cultural taboos, the social censorship, that had prohibited the…

— Howard Kerr

“It’s not a story that leads the reader to philosophical thoughts. And it’s not a philosophical treatise that needs a story to convey them.…

— Clarice Lispector

“At the age of twelve, before I had had one full year of formal schooling, I had a conception of life that no experience…

— Richard Wright

“[E]verything is fiction. When you tell yourself the story of your life, the story of your day, you edit and rewrite and weave a…

— Keith Ridgway

“For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.”

— Flannery O'Connor

“Was a sadness so profound that the mind sought escape into fantasy?”

— Lorraine Heath