Story Writing Quotes
12 Story Writing quotes by 11 unique authors
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If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced that there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to…
— John Steinbeck
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Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because…
— Lynn Abbey
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If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a…
— John Steinbeck
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The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part…
— Stephen King
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I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.
— Robert Sheckley
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The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. Im caught up in the story writing…
— Iris Johansen
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I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying where…
— Flannery O'Connor
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For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted…
— John Hawkes
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Here in Manto's own words that he wanted to mark his grave with: "In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful Here lies Saadat…
— Saadat Hasan Manto
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I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.
— O. Henry
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I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the technique, although with…
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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I like the story writing process. I usually use someone who has been trained for structure to take the story that I actually want, place…
— Curtis Jackson
Who Wrote These Story Writing Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 12 Story Writing Quotes as follows: