Ever since wars have been fought, guys have been writing their stories. — Brandon Webb Copy Share Image
I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories. — Randa Abdel-Fattah 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
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
But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create. — Patricia Cornwell 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
I'm a professional. So before I published any novels, I'd always been writing stories. — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14. — Cary Fukunaga 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
“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
I know the fastest way for me to get acclaim is to criticize the league. I can do that tomorrow. I come… — Cris Collinsworth 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
“Writing stories and plays is an extension of little-kid doll house play and lego play. We all are kids, just older now,… — Jeanne Voelker Copy Share Image
I wasn't writing stories with the intention of creating a particular collection. I simply wrote stories, and then discovered common themes among… — Bonnie Jo Campbell 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've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I… — Blake Jenner Copy Share Image
What I've found as I have kept writing stories is that more and more your way is barred. I feel really choked… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
Writing two stories [in the Thorn and the Blossom] about the same set of events that were complete stories in themselves, but… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
The more foreign to me, to my existence, to your core existence, the more foreign the foreign language, it's really moving to… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
My being Indian is possibly the biggest thing that influences my stories. Not just in terms of settings - most of the… — Vandana Singh Copy Share Image
I can remember as a college student writing stories and novels, some of which ended up getting published and some that didn't.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I do not begin my novel at the beginning, I do not reach chapter three before I reach chapter four, I do… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I started writing stories at a young age, but not once did it occur to me that I could grow up to… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
Writing is for stories to be read, books to be published, poems to be recited, plays to be acted, songs to be… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
“When my mother would tell me that she wanted me to have something because she as a child had never had it,… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“What discoveries I made in the course of writing stories all begin with the particular, never the general. They are mostly hindsight:… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“You see, it's this way. It is inme. I can't help it. And Father said I was always to keep on writing. He said I… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Love is anticipation and memory, uncertainty and longing. It's unreasonable, of course. Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope and pleasure… — John Dufrense Copy Share Image
“When my sons asked the reason for my trip, I said that I needed to conduct research for my book. What is… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“The poem you brought yesterday,’ said Balbulus in a bored voice as he bent over his work again, ‘it was good. You… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“If Laura was so prolific with poems, and in truth she was, then what was the problem with Megan’s request? Couldn’t Laura,… — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
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