If nobody is looking for a story, and I have no reason to write a story, I would really much rather to… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
I spent 12 years of my life writing stories without black people. That's insane to me. It's insane that I could have… — Tomi Adeyemi 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
“...writing stories was always a bit like falling in love with a stranger and running off to Marrakech for a long weekend.… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I certainly have been writing stories that are hard science fiction, that are very reminiscent of 'Golden Age tales' from the '40s… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
The hardest thing writers have to do is figure out for themselves who they are. What should they be writing about? What… — Blake Crouch 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 had been writing for the 'Late Show' for about four years when I started writing short stories. I had a blast… — Jill Davis Copy Share Image
“A conscious act grew out of this by the time I began writing stories: getting my distance, a prerequisite of my understanding… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong, God Bless the farmers and cowboys. It just wasn't the life I wanted. When writing stories of other… — Tom Johnson Copy Share Image
“f you want to be famous then run for office and be a politician. If you want to be rich then become… — Karen Jones Gowen Copy Share Image
My family life reads a bit like 'Little House on the Prairie.' I was big sister to Joan, Renee, and brother William,… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
It was tricky [to write about Israelis], because everyone has an opinion about the Arab - Israeli conflict, and when I first… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
have a much harder time writing stories than novels. I need the expansiveness of a novel and the propulsive energy it provides.… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
I didn't do anything as active as deciding that I wanted to be a writer. For one thing, I didn't feel like… — Kelly Link 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 enjoy so many different art forms; I don't just want to focus on acting. I love music. I love writing stories.… — Brenton Thwaites 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'd been writing stories since I was a child. I wrote little books for my mom and bound them myself with needle… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
Writing stories has given me the power to change things I could not change as a child. I can make boys into… — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
Even if I never sold another book, I'd keep writing, because the stories are here, in my head. Stories that just need… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
Writers end up writing stories-or rather, stories' shadows-and they're grateful if they can, but it is not enough. Nothing the writer can… — Joy Williams 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 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
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 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
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 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
My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was… — Natalie Babbitt 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
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
Dancing used to be my one and only thing and then I started getting into poetry and writing stories and then music… — Tate McRae Copy Share Image
I was always writing stories, even as a kid. I always wanted to be in the plays and do that sort of… — Katie Wech 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'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I… — Zara Cox 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
Very early on, I was writing stories, and I was amazed at Spielberg's movies when I was young. Coming from the countryside,… — Denis Villeneuve Copy Share Image
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