We write stories about common people and common things…

We should have stories in common, I found myself thinking. We should have stories, and jokes no one understands, and memories that we know…

— Kamila Shamsie

Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.

— Kate Forsyth

“All love stories have much in common. I wen through the same thing at one point in my life. But that's not what I…

— Paulo Coelho

It's for the common people, people who have made this great country of ours. That's what the heck I say we always write about.

— Johnny Van Zant

When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began to write…

— Grace Paley

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

I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, stories that raise moral questions…

— William Lashner

I'm pretty hardcore. I stick exactly to what I'm doing. So I write a novel in one period, and then I'll write stories in…

— T.C. Boyle

“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

There was Uncle Ken of mine about whom I wrote a lot of stories. I can always write stories about uncles and aunts and…

— Ruskin Bond

Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere, living at…

— Michael Chabon

When you write stories linking reality to a big storyline, people relate to it better.

— Ravi Subramanian

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

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