“Nobody wants to see the truth. Everybody wants to have the fantasy. When I look back at the books I was reading in my childhood were selling some sort of fantasy as well. Most stories are not going to tell the deep suffering of every day. No book prepared me for the suffering I would experience in life because the word "suffering" does not even describe what the suffering is. No story is going to tell you that, and no words can tell you that.” WantWellsLooksDoeBookStoriesSufferingReadingFantasyChildhoodPreparedSelling Author:Signe Baumane
“I am not a "Christian author." I am an author who is a Christian. While my books reflect my faith, they are not intended as teaching tools for a Christian audience per se. My books are stories created around principles that work for everyone and they work every time.” BookStoriesChristianPrinciplesAudienceTeachingTools Author:Andy Andrews
“My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.” BookStoriesMemoriesWrittenPersonal Experiences Author:Isabel Allende
“I don't have any one way to tell a story. I don't have any rule book of how it's supposed to be done. But I've always said that if a story would be more emotionally involving told, beginning, middle, and end, I'll tell it that way. I won't jigsaw it, just to show what a clever boy I am. I don't do anything in my script just to be clever.” IfsWaySaidBookEndsDoneStoriesShowsWould BeBoysMiddleScriptsCleverOne WaySupposed To BeInvolvingBeginning Middle And EndJigsaw Author:Quentin Tarantino
“It's all still about having a good story. You have to have a good story as your anchor, as your main focus. So for me, personally, I just like to concentrate on writing the best book I can, and if there's other stuff that goes along with it, that's awesome, as long as the story is central.” IfsWritingLongStillsI CanBookStoriesStuffFocusAnchorsGood Story Author:Rick Riordan
“If I'm writing a story and you're reading it, or vice versa, you took time out of your day to pick up my book. I think the one thing that will kill that relationship is if you feel me condescending to you in the process.” IfsThinkingFeelsWritingBookStoriesReadingProcessOne ThingPicksVicesVice VersaCondescending Author:George Saunders
“I'm not thinking much about overall themes or preoccupations or anything like that. Instead I'm just trusting that, if I'm working hard, various notions and riffs and motifs and so on are very naturally suffusing the stories and the resulting book.” IfsThinkingBookHardStoriesNotionVariousThemePreoccupationMotifs Author:George Saunders
“The only reason to buy a paper book any longer is to own it and cherish it and remember it and tell a story about it.” BookReasonStoriesRememberPaperCherishPaper Books Author:Seth Godin
“Writing of history is our only heuristic principle. The Germans have a word for it, einfühlen. It is the ability to experience the past in the present and to recreate it. In my books, I have tried to recreate it in the most natural way possible: History must be integrated into the story without the weight of premonition.” WayWritingBookStoriesPastNaturalAbilityPrinciplesWeightIntegratedPremonitionHeuristics Author:Gore Vidal