Down Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.

— Maurice Sendak

I start writing, pull whatever images happen to occur to me and make up a story, instead of starting with details that are real…

— John Darnielle

My life isn't very racy or exciting so I make things up, tell stories. I like telling stories.

— Lisa Stansfield

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my…

— John Steinbeck

I only write about stuff that sort of happens to me, and then I blow it up into a much funnier version.

— Jason Jones

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

— Anthony Bourdain

I could never do just one thing, but everything I do is in the direction of stories. Sometimes writing them, sometimes showcasing them, sometimes…

— Damian Barr

My life has been wild enough to derive all of the stories you need out of it. I've been through many, many years of…

— Ron White

Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.

— Casey Stoner

No matter what kind of writing you do, it's always the details that make the story.

— Elizabeth Berg

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.

— Isabel Allende