Write Quote by Brendan Kiely

I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“I never have time to write, and I always have a thousand distractions in my way. But still, I write. I write because I’m…

— Aaron B. Powell

As a writer, you have control: You can play around with your own thoughts and when you find those insufficient, draw upon others': their…

— Marty Nemko

“A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them on paper.”

— Christy Hall

“When you write a story, you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are…

— Stephen King

When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.

— Imtiaz Ali

When you choose to write using yourself as the source of the story, you are choosing to confront all the silences in which your…

— Christina Baldwin

“Rather than feeling that every moment you’ve got to exert this enormous control, you can take the attitude that your job as a writer…

— Stuart Dybek

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

“It’s important to put it like that: not “I am a writer,” but rather “I write stories.” If you put the emphasis on yourself…

— Philip Pullman

“Being a writer is an amazing job, but we’re all writers, most of us just forget to put our stories down on paper.”

— Colette Freedman

“Writing is more about telling other peoples' stories than your own”

— Carla H. Krueger