To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a…

To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last…

— Eudora Welty

I love to imagine inside the head of a woman.

— Jay McInerney

“There are more people involved in telling a story than the writer.”

— Cecelia Ahern

Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things…

— Andy Rooney

I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good…

— Irwin Winkler

For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus what actually…

— Carol Bly

The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically, heading up…

— Julio Cortazar

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.

— Eric Brown

I used to be a good story writer. I could make up a story with like, eight people in it and tell you where…

— Danielle Bregoli

The first draft of a story is the writer's clay.

— Bruce Coville

Well, as a short-story writer, I don't think there are any weaknesses to the genre itself. I guess I would say that the difficulty…

— ZZ Packer

The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story.

— Carol Bly

As a story writer, you have work with sharp but relatively small tools, the picks of metaphor, the shovel blade of images, the trowel…

— David Means

I was trained mainly as a short story writer and that's how I started writing, but I've also become very interested in non-fiction, just…

— David Foster Wallace

“You are not a story, your life is a story and you are the writer, write an inspiring one.”

— Drishti Bablani, Wordions