I don't write stories about despair. I write stories about…

I would never write stories with only despair and defeat and the dark side of life.

— Morris Gleitzman

To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual…

— John Cheever

“Call anguish--anguish, and despair--despair; write both down in strong characters with a resolute pen: you will the better pay your debt to Doom.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“It is right to look our life-accounts bravely in the face now and then, and settle them honestly. And he is a poor self-swindler…

— Charlotte Brontë

I write stories, I don't just write rhymes, I write books.

— Ghostface Killah

Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.

— Lisa Scottoline

People across the world are yearning to be connected to stories of hope.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

“The Word of God is a hub where stories of hope are told, from the young to the old.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

The only thing that kept me going was stories. Stories are hope. They take you out of yourself for a bit, and when you…

— Neil Gaiman

“All of these heroes had failed to cajole and coerce the masters of America. Their ambition of a better world had been frustrated. This…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The most hopeful thing in the stories, I hope, is wit. I make it up. If I make up a world in which we're…

— George Saunders

All I thought about when I wrote my stories was, "I hope that these comic books would sell so I can keep my job…

— Stan Lee

As long as we have our stories there is hope.

— Henri Nouwen

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