Away from you Quote by Byron Katie

“What discoveries I made in the course of writing stories all begin with the particular, never the general. They are mostly hindsight: arrows that…

— Eudora Welty

There is no story that is you or that leads to you. Every story leads away from you.

— Byron Katie

“If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story." "And what if your story doesn't…

— Terry Pratchett

Everyone has a story, the air is full of stories. The creative process is mysterious, I don't know why it is that suddenly a…

— Isabel Allende

“You alone own your story. Do not let another tell it, and if you find yourself in the company of one determined to rewrite…

— Jeanette LeBlanc

“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

I don't abandon stories once I've started working on them. Once I sit down and start a story, I'll be damned if I'm going…

— Kelly Link

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

“I said that I have finished telling my story, not that the story is finished. I said before that no story is ever really…

— Herbert Rosendorfer

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

[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“Forget what they say about “write what you know.” Write what excites your imagination, and the knowledge you need can be acquired. And if…

— Charles Kowalski