The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood.
– Malcolm Cowley
Tag: story
Quotable 211
I’m just writing a story that I want to read.
– Jean Marie Auel
Quotable 208
I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion.
– Jhumpa Lahiri
Quotable 178
Stories are a fundamental human form of thought.
– Iris Murdoch
Quotable 175
Whether a story is told on the page or on the screen, the same elements are required. You’ve got to have characters you can identify with, and there’d better be trouble brewing somewhere. Whatever these people’s lives have been before, they’re about to change in a big way. That’s what stories are all about.
– Jenny Wingfield
Quotable 163
Few humans can resist a good story. Stories are rooted in a multitude of personal experiences. A good story invites listeners to compare and contrast their own experience with that of the characters in the story.
– Bryan West
Quotable 155
Tell a story! Don’t try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first.
– Anne McCaffrey
Quotable 133
Essentially, a story expresses how and why life changes.
– Robert McKee
Discussion: Flash Fiction: Stories or Poems
This discussion began here. So start with that and then continue here. Give us your thoughts on what constitutes a story. Do the requirements change when the writer has only 140 characters? Do some pieces of tiny fiction seem more like poems than stories? Where is that line drawn?
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Quotable 120
Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.
– Kurt Vonnegut