Agents Quote by Bob Shacochis

About a year after (my stories began being published), magazine editor George Scithers, suggested to me that since I was so new at being…

— Barry B. Longyear

If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs you on to write.

— Nell Freudenberger

I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book.

— Sally Kirkland

I'm a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a novelist. A lot of novelists are…

— James Patterson

If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting…

— Kate DiCamillo

I'm a professional. So before I published any novels, I'd always been writing stories.

— Jess Walter

I have great stories. I am going to write a book.

— Carlene Carter

Don't wait for success, but for the respect and interest of those who read you. At the start it could be a classmate, someone…

— Dacia Maraini

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

I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my…

— John Steinbeck

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'

— Diane Mott Davidson

I'm a storyteller; I write what I want to read.

— Jackie Collins