But then, that's the beauty of writing stories-each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
At eleven I was at the peak of my creative powers: I was writing stories and playlets, putting together poetryprojects. I was… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I find most 'rules' about how to write a 'good story' confining, and I enjoy writing stories that don't look like stories… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I've been writing stories all my life. My very first story had two little black girls riding horses. They were both me,… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
“I've been getting tired of writing stories in the stars. Maybe we can write something in the good old Arkansas dirt. ~Holly” — Christina Coryell Copy Share Image
Writing stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going,… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
For myself, I feel more natural writing stories or novels than writing plays. I feel more like myself, like I can express… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time drawing and writing stories, and my mother encouraged me not to use an eraser when I… — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in moving toward writing stories - thinking about the graphic novel form, and just something more long-form. I did… — Chitra Ganesh Copy Share Image
I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The democratic race is really boring when the media is basically writing stories and spending money to ask questions in a poll… — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
If someone told me I had to stop writing stories, that would be the end of me. — David Grann Copy Share Image
I feel incredibly fortunate to have had the level of success I've had. I was just writing stories for my own sons. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls'… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
