Away Quote by Carol Windley

When I begin to write a story, I usually know how things will end. It's the journey toward that point I must discover. The…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

Once I start work on a project, I don’t stop and I don’t slow down unless I absolutely have to. If I don’t write…

— Stephen King

I'm endlessly intrigued by stories, and I love helping someone to formulate his or her story. I can drift off when I'm reading pure…

— Andrew Solomon

The stories tend to be what I work on when I'm stuck. Something will just pop into my head and I'll think that's more…

— Jess Walter

I always find with my stories that the way they start is that I just get so interested in a person that I'm compelled…

— Michael Lewis

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

Often, if I read a story and I'm moved, I have an understanding for a character and I don't really know why.

— Mia Wasikowska

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets…

— Caroline B. Cooney

Taking on different characters and seeing things through the eyes of different people is interesting to me. When I look at what people are…

— Little Simz

It's a challenge to express real life in dramatic terms. In an entirely "made-up" story, you are sometimes overwhelmed by the infinite possibilities.

— Daniel Clowes

When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness,…

— Margaret Atwood

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final…

— Alice Munro