Stories Quote by Alice McDermott

Every articulate family ... generates its own stories, explanations and myths to illuminate the differences in temperament and talent among its children, the lines…

— Elizabeth Fishel

I never question the way I write. Writing is the only thing that's without seams for me. It's an effort to talk because my…

— Augusten Burroughs

“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing anything else.”

— Gloria Steinem

You know what they're writing about Baby you know what they're writing about It's a thing called love down through the ages Makes you…

— Van Morrison

I did the co-writing thing all through the '90s and I got one hit out of it - a Keith Urban song called 'But…

— Jane Wiedlin

“Writing the thing is the journey.”

— Nigia Stephens

Writing is the only thing I am good for.

— Ruskin Bond

It was relatively easy to write 'The Cave of Lost Souls', though, because it came to me one night in a dream. I remember…

— Paul Kane

“I wish i could write them down, these little coloured parables or poems that live for a moment in some cell of my brain,…

— Oscar Wilde

The silver lining of those years when I was trying to get 'Tinkers' published but couldn't were the years when I had to decide,…

— Paul Harding

Reading and writing are the same thing; it's just one's the more active and the other's the more passive. They flow into each other.

— Jonathan Lethem

But when it comes to writing the thing that I've sort of been thinking about lately, is why? You know, is it rational? Is…

— Elizabeth Gilbert