Writing Stories Quotes

39 quotes by 38 authors

I started writing stories as a child. — Danielle Steel
But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create. — Patricia Cornwell
One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing… — Scarlett Thomas
At eleven I was at the peak of my creative powers: I was writing stories and playlets, putting together poetryprojects. I was absorbed by my… — Todd Solondz
But then, that's the beauty of writing stories-each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find… — T.C. Boyle
For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling… — Sara Sheridan
Writers end up writing stories-or rather, stories' shadows-and they're grateful if they can, but it is not enough. Nothing the writer can do is ever… — Joy Williams
Usually, I have a lot of acquaintance with the story before I start writing it. When I didn't have regular time to give to writing,… — Alice Munro
Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else. — Tobias Wolff
I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting. — Jhumpa Lahiri
We are writing stories with light and darkness, motion and colors. It is a language with its own vocabulary and unlimited possibilities for expressing our… — Vittorio Storaro
Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use. — Julianna Baggott
I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories. — Randa Abdel-Fattah
I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in love… — Dorothea Benton Frank
I started writing stories in my spare time. — Ken Follett
I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually. — Laurell K. Hamilton
My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive, fragmentary impressions of… — H P Lovecraft
I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes. — Steve Earle
I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time. — Stephen King
The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you'll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism… — Alan Moore

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