Acquaintance Quote by Alice Munro

Stories often take their own course once you start to write them, especially when you have the benefit of a writers' room and a…

— Bryan Konietzko

Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.

— Tobias Wolff

I started writing stories in my spare time.

— Ken Follett

Nobody ever wrote a story for me. I told in every story what was really inside my gut, and it came out that way.…

— Jack Kirby

It's real easy for me to write a lot of stories. I just go and I live through something, and I go home and…

— Harvey Pekar

I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't…

— Etgar Keret

When I'm sure I have a story, I call my collaborators and we begin to discuss it. And we conduct studies of certain subjects…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

Sometimes the way comes later, when I'm not working or thinking about it at all. When stories don't work, you try to convince yourself…

— Mary J. Miller

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

— Flannery O'Connor

I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me a lot…

— Barbara Hamby

I never started writing because I wanted to write myself stuff. It was really more that I had these stories to tell, and I…

— Josh Lawson

I never get sick of writing my own stories because there's a certain comfort in knowing you will never run out of material. It's…

— Augusten Burroughs