Inspirational Quote by Chris Colfer

“Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Whether you know it or not, your desire to write comes from the urge to not just be “creative,” it’s a need (one every…

— Shawn Coyne

“What is the greatest reward a writer can have? Isn’t it that day when someone rushes up to you, his face bursting with honesty,…

— Ray Bradbury

“...I’ve never understood the logic that says a work doesn’t need to be judged on the quality of its writing or characters simply because…

— Glen Hirshberg

“If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.” ~Somerset Maugham”

— Dennis Ward

“It is a still stranger thing that there is nothing so delightful in the world as telling stories. It is far pleasanter than writing…

— Virginia Woolf

“If you’re honest with yourself as a writer, trying to tell the best story you can, your story will be an honest one. And…

— Joe Clifford Faust

If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write,…

— Octavia Butler

“It’s funny that when you decide you want to do creative work—journalism or music or films or whatever—nobody tells you how much of your…

— John Biewen

It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story.

— Greg Kinnear

“I love telling stories for a living. The process of writing has its frustrations, but also its joys (there’s no high like typing “The…

— Marcus Sakey

Basically, all novelists should want to tell a story, and if they don't want to, they shouldn't be novelists. I think story-telling is important…

— Susan Howatch