I write stories, because I want to read them.

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have…

— Tracy Kidder

I also write stories and want to show these stories to the world; someday someone might want to direct them.

— Satyadev Kancharana

You can't write something actively trying to please everyone - you're going to end up with watery soup that way. You just have to…

— Kelly Sue DeConnick

My goal is to write stories that are connected, but not sequels in any meaningful sense. Like Howard's Conan tales or Leiber's Fahrrd &…

— Paul S. Kemp

I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.

— Salman Rushdie

I like to believe that stories want to be written, that they must make an effort in order to be heard. They suggest themselves…

— Rodrigo Rey Rosa

“My goal is not to have everlasting fame, it is simply to write the stories that are asking me to write them and to…

— Elizabeth Hernandez

I think a lot of the way that I try to write my stories come from watching my mom write plays and trying to…

— Jazmine Sullivan

Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social…

— John Grisham

I actually have a life I said I wanted to have. I wanted to tell stories I want and be with my family. I'm…

— Helen Hunt

I think, ultimately, people are looking for real heartfelt true stories. They want to engage with them, they want to relate (to) them and,…

— Shari Wiedmann

The stories I want to tell are when we're our own heroes and our own enemies, and I don't think that's a rude thing…

— Jessica Williams

There are some stories I want to tell that I think it'd be cool to see an African-American dude do.

— Chadwick Boseman

It's good to please the network, but you really just have to tell the stories you want to tell, and if you try to…

— Will Forte

It's probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories that I…

— Angelina Jolie