Claws Quote by David E. Kelley

I never think of stories as made things; I think of them as found things. As if you pull them out of the ground.

— Stephen King

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

My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When…

— Ray Bradbury

You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just…

— Willem Dafoe

For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel,

— Alice Munro

I think that the way that I write stories is by instinct. You have some basic ideas - a character, or an image, or…

— Dan Chaon

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

It's the only way I really know how to tell the story is to be able to kind of live through the characters. So…

— Rob Reiner

Telling a story is the way of exploring so many different things - human behavior, society, whatever existence.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more…

— Dave Eggers

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…

— T.C. Boyle

Writing, for me, is a little like wood carving. You find the lump of tree (the big central theme that gets you started), and…

— Terry Pratchett