--- title: "10 Stories Started Quotes by 9 authors" description: "Browse 10 Stories Started quotes by 9 authors. Discover the best Stories Started sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/73d/matt-drudge-12582_cycles_i-ve-written-thousands-of-stories-starte_104065.jpg" --- > [I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-drudge/i-ve-written-thousands-of-stories-started-hundreds-of-news-cycles/) [Matt Drudge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-drudge/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/73d/matt-drudge-12582_cycles_i-ve-written-thousands-of-stories-starte_104065.jpg) > [I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carine-roitfeld/i-started-as-a-writer-for-magazines-and-soon-they-asked-me-to/) [Carine Roitfeld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carine-roitfeld/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e7/carine-roitfeld-1355_asked_i-started-as-a-writer-for-magazines-and_1122155.jpg) > [My story is like many other stories. I started very young. As the years went by, I only cared about playing football.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/javier-zanetti/my-story-is-like-many-other-stories-i-started-very-young-as-the-years/) [Javier Zanetti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/javier-zanetti/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efb/javier-zanetti-6419_football_my-story-is-like-many-other-stories-i-st_1004050.jpg) > [I was reading fan fiction on Wattpad, but they were taking a little bit to update the stories, so I started writing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-todd/i-was-reading-fan-fiction-on-wattpad-but-they-were-taking-a-little/) [Anna Todd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-todd/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/033/anna-todd-7473_myself_i-was-reading-fan-fiction-on-wattpad-but_2990283.jpg) > [When I returned to short stories, I'd started working on what is still central to much of what I try to do:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karin-tidbeck/when-i-returned-to-short-stories-i-d-started-working-on-what-is-still/) [Karin Tidbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karin-tidbeck/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59b/karin-tidbeck-21618_aliens_when-i-returned-to-short-stories-i-d-sta_74543.jpg) > [“Stories always started this way, suddenly, and set within a strange world. Patience is required, to let the stories unroll. This is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-behrens/stories-always-started-this-way-suddenly-and-set-within-a-strange/) [Peter Behrens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-behrens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd3/peter-behrens-31160_patience_stories-always-started-this-way-suddenly_2110557.png) > [One night, I was lying in bed, and I was channel surfing between reality TV programs and actual war coverage. On one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suzanne-collins/one-night-i-was-lying-in-bed-and-i-was-channel-surfing-between-2/) [Suzanne Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suzanne-collins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44a/suzanne-collins-60_bed_one-night-i-was-lying-in-bed-and-i-was-c_1676991.jpg) > [One night, I was lying in bed, and I was channel surfing between reality TV programs and actual war coverage. On one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suzanne-collins/one-night-i-was-lying-in-bed-and-i-was-channel-surfing-between/) [Suzanne Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suzanne-collins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b1c/suzanne-collins-60_reality-tv_one-night-i-was-lying-in-bed-and-i-was-c_737650.jpg) > [I like to tell kids that I started thinking about stories when I first started reading stuff like Dr. Seuss and 'Go,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-scieszka/i-like-to-tell-kids-that-i-started-thinking-about-stories-when-i/) [Jon Scieszka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-scieszka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/285/jon-scieszka-21548_about_i-like-to-tell-kids-that-i-started-think_2928885.jpg) > [“valley? That should be interesting for you.” “I haven’t decided what I’m doing yet.” “I’d be happy to help,” Mr. Bally said.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/valley-that-should-be-interesting-for-you-i-haven-t-decided-what-i-m/) [Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f63/anna-quindlen-467_gaze_valley-that-should-be-interesting-for-yo_316141.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/stories-started/#itemlist", "name": "Stories Started Quotes", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Matt Drudge" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-drudge/i-ve-written-thousands-of-stories-started-hundreds-of-news-cycles/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/73d/matt-drudge-12582_cycles_i-ve-written-thousands-of-stories-starte_104065.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/73d/matt-drudge-12582_cycles_i-ve-written-thousands-of-stories-starte_104065.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/73d/matt-drudge-12582_cycles_i-ve-written-thousands-of-stories-starte_104065.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.” — Matt Drudge", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. 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Go!,' thinking, 'Oh yeah, that's funny. I'd like to do that.' 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That should be interesting for you.” “I haven’t decided what I’m doing yet.” “I’d be happy to help,” Mr. Bally said. “I’m an expert on the subject you’re studying.” He picked up one of the microfilm boxes. “Judges in these contests like primary sources.” I knew that. Judges in these contests always liked primary sources. I was already using one. “Tell me about Andover,” I’d said to Cissy Langer, sitting in her back room with a wall full of piggy dolls staring at me. “Oh, my goodness, Mimi, what a question,” she’d said. I took the glass of iced tea, and I took the plate of chocolate chip cookies, and I set my tape recorder between them. I’d borrowed it from the school librarian. “I’ve already got some primary sources,” I said to Winston Bally in the conference room. We all pick and choose the things we talk about, I guess. I’d listened to my mother and Cissy talk about growing up together for maybe hundreds of hours, about sharing a seat and red licorice ropes on the bus, about getting licked for wearing their Sunday dresses into the woods one day, about the years when they both moved back in with their parents while their husbands went to war. And somehow I’d never really noticed that all the stories started when they were ten, that there were no stories about the four-year-old Miriam, the six-year-old Cissy, about the day when they were both seven when Ruth came home from the hospital, a bundle of yellow crochet yarn and dirty diaper. It made sense, I guess, since it turned out Cissy had grown up in a place whose name I’d never even heard because it had been wiped off the map before I’d ever even been born. “My whole family lived in Andover,” Cissy said. “My mother and”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anna Quindlen" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/valley-that-should-be-interesting-for-you-i-haven-t-decided-what-i-m/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f63/anna-quindlen-467_gaze_valley-that-should-be-interesting-for-yo_316141.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f63/anna-quindlen-467_gaze_valley-that-should-be-interesting-for-yo_316141.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f63/anna-quindlen-467_gaze_valley-that-should-be-interesting-for-yo_316141.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“valley? 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