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'm a professional. So before I published any novels, I'd always been writing stories. — Jess Walter 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
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
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
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'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
I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing.… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
I always wrote. I've written stories since I was 9. We didn't have a computer at home, but my aunt Magda had… — Xavier Dolan Copy Share Image
I enjoyed writing stories whenever there was call to do it at school, and started writing bad poetry when I was doing… — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
We are writing stories with light and darkness, motion and colors. It is a language with its own vocabulary and unlimited possibilities… — Vittorio Storaro Copy Share Image
I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen… — Dorothea Benton Frank 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 ended up switching over to journalism in college. A few weeks into freshman year, I realized that business school wasn't for… — C. J. McCollum Copy Share Image
It's hard not to be enthusiastic when you like what you're doing and I love what I do. I love writing stories,… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I like torture. Torture is photogenic. If you make horror movies, you always have to think what's photogenic and what's not. If… — Udo Kier 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
When I write songs, I'm just writing stories, and being in musical theatre taught me how to act them out through singing. — Anne-Marie Copy Share Image
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
The best thing about being an author is writing stories and having people - strangers all over the world - connect with… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I'm a woman, and I'm interested in writing stories from a female perspective. — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
So writing stories is not easier in comparison to the playwriting or translation; the stories are easier in league with them. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I love writing stories about regular people dealing with life's biggest questions. — Nick Blaemire Copy Share Image
“When people stop writing down their stories, the soul the world is lost.” — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm. — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition. — Jo Nesbo 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
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting. — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t remember what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.” — P. G. Wodehouse 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
When I was writing stories about Chinese American characters in my fiction classes, I'd get comments like, 'You should consider writing more… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
