Achieve Quote by Bill Watterson

I think anybody who is writing finds he puts a little bit of himself in all of the characters, at least in this kind…

— Charles M. Schulz

As I get older I find myself thinking about stories more and more before I work so that by the time I eventually sit…

— Chris Ware

I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the…

— Zara Cox

a good writer should draw the reader in by starting in the middle of the story with a hook, then go back and fill…

— Roland Smith

Readers need to see themselves between the lines of the story.

— Karen Kingsbury

The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something.

— Marlon James

If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads to work…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

— Anonymous

In a novella, a whole lot of crap can happen, and you can build momentum and suspense and leave room for a surprise or…

— Robert Reed

To write a good story there are four things that every author needs: 1. A beginning 2. A middle 3. An ending 4. And…

— Anonymous

Creating one single story often requires experimenting and planning and falling on your literary rear more than once before you find the way that…

— Nancy Lam

My only obligation as a fiction writer is to the story, to make it good, so good the busy reader doesn't feel that flipping…

— Leslie Pietrzyk