Beginning Quote by Anubhav Sinha

I never wanted to be a writer; I just had stories I needed to tell.

— Sefi Atta

I didn't want to just write stories that were entertaining. Nor did I want to be so scholarly that people couldn't digest it.

— Max Lucado

People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories.

— Aleksandar Hemon

I always wrote stories, but I do remember a particular moment in middle school where I became passionate about essay writing.

— Rupi Kaur

I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would…

— R. A. Salvatore

When I wrote 'Savage Season,' it was three years later before I wrote the second Hap and Leonard novel. Whenever I wrote one, I…

— Joe R. Lansdale

Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

— Tanith Lee

Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.

— Jim Lehrer

The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.

— Chuck Palahniuk

The truth is, I hadn't grown up really wanting to be a writer. The whole thing was a weird aberration in some ways, and…

— Alex Garland

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as…

— Theodore Sturgeon

I wanted it to be as readable as possible. I had the ambition of reaching a broader audience.

— Adrian Tomine