Creative Quote by Alejandro Zambra

So writing stories is not easier in comparison to the playwriting or translation; the stories are easier in league with them.

— Nathan Englander

In the most basic way, writers are defined not by the stories they tell, or their politics, or their gender, or their race, but…

— Donald E. Westlake

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

— Jeanette Winterson

Writing is a skill, not a talent, and this difference is important because a skill can be improved by practice.

— Robert Stacy McCain

Storytelling draws on the magic of language to created Elsewheres. Writers use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to take an attribute, attach them to new objects,…

— Maria Tatar

Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of…

— Alice McDermott

Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose.

— Laurie Alberts

I fundamentally believe that no one can teach you how to write - finding out how to write a story is part of the…

— Uzodinma Iweala

I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. When I first started writing, I just started…

— Andrea Barrett

A story is a story is a story. The only difference is in the techniques you bring to bear. There are always limitations on…

— J. Michael Straczynski

I think a lot of what goes into writing can be taught - not mixing metaphors, etc.

— Lydia Davis

Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.

— Aimee Bender