Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
What I often do when I'm writing, if I can't find that story, I go out and I hunt for it. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
When writing the story of your life...don't let anyone hold the pen for you — Mercy Pheona Copy Share Image
Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth. — Gloria Swanson Copy Share Image
If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's. — Chris Brogan Copy Share Image
You are writing the story of your only life every single minute of every day. — Katherine Center Copy Share Image
Because I don’t work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I’m on this rock, now I’m… — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
Words matter, particularly when you're writing a story that could significantly damage a person's or an organization's reputation. — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
I always describe writing a story as throwing bowling pins in the air and then catching them. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a story, I try to reduce it to the barest possible components and go from there. — David Lowery Copy Share Image
I love writing. I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“My wish has always been to write my own story, to create a life that’s worth writing about. But is a story… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Writing a story is like going down a path in the woods. You follow the path. You don't worry about getting lost.… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life.… — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
It is very enjoyable, writing a story. You get this idea. It takes hold of you. And then you spend day and… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
You learn to do your best writing on story rather than off story. Very often at the beginning of their careers, writers… — Victor Levin Copy Share Image
“But when you write something down, you have to think it all the way through. Sometimes, I'm not even sure how I… — Pat Murphy Copy Share Image
“After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Writing a story about a place calls that world into existence. Sometimes, as the author, you accompany it for a while. But… — Alan McCluskey Copy Share Image
So here I am, sending a two-ounce mouse down into a dungeon with a sewing needle to save a human princess, and… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“If it were up to me..." and then the words pound, desperate and hard, "I'd write this story differently."... "Just that maybe...… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Writing about real stuff that really concerned me brought out my craft. If you're writing a story about, 'Is Lois Lane gonna… — Dennis O'Neil Copy Share Image
I made the rules I figured I could be the one to break them. I thought I would write about xenophobia, a… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“writing a story is dangerous more dangerous then anyone can know. Its planting small seeds of ideas into peoples minds. Some can… — Natalie Stein Copy Share Image
Writing has nothing to do with publishing. Nothing. People get totally confused about that. You write because you have to - you… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“When I began writing this story, I thought I had some idea of what it was about. I was wrong. In my… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“Now I ask you to consider writing from the inside, to convince yourself of your characters' dimensions before you attempt to narrate… — Tin House Books Copy Share Image
“Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
When writing the story of your life, don't let anyone else hold the pen. — Mostafa A Copy Share Image
“Writing a story, regardless of length, always begins with a single word.” — Don Roff Copy Share Image
“Writing a story is like getting to share a piece of every daydream you've ever had.” — Giuseppe Bianco Copy Share Image
When writing the story of your life, don't let someone else hold the pen. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true. — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
