What I often do when I'm writing, if I can't find that…

“When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. In one of my essays,…

— Chinua Achebe

When you are writing the story of of your life never lend out your pen

— Anonymous

I'm always writing. There is always a story brewing in my head.

— Mel Gibson

The human race may be compared to a writer. At the outset a writer has often only a vague general notion of the plan…

— Felix Adler

“Writing a story is like getting to share a piece of every daydream you've ever had.”

— Giuseppe Bianco

The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't…

— Jack Vance

With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working…

— William Faulkner

When writing your own story, dont let anyone else hold your pen.

— Unkown

I made the rules I figured I could be the one to break them. I thought I would write about xenophobia, a hatred of…

— Sue Grafton

“When I began writing this story, I thought I had some idea of what it was about. I was wrong. In my life writing…

— Richard Paul Evans

“writing a story is dangerous more dangerous then anyone can know. Its planting small seeds of ideas into peoples minds. Some can grow and…

— Natalie Stein

So here I am, sending a two-ounce mouse down into a dungeon with a sewing needle to save a human princess, and I don't…

— Kate DiCamillo

“After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this…

— Ernest Hemingway

When you're writing a story, you're creating something of an artificial ending.

— Mary Gaitskill

You learn to do your best writing on story rather than off story. Very often at the beginning of their careers, writers including me…

— Victor Levin