Go Quote by David Lowery

When you're putting together a story, sometimes you just have to skip over the boring bits.

— Laurie R. King

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by…

— Roddy Doyle

My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.

— Anita Desai

The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later.

— Drew Goddard

I tend to write longer narrative pieces after I've finished writing a novel - when the fiction's finished and put away, and I have…

— Dinaw Mengestu

My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.

— Etgar Keret

I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page…

— James Rollins

The best part of writing is thinking about the story. And then everything else takes a lot of discipline.

— Kareem Mortimer

I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.

— Truman Capote

I do not often follow my characters off on tangents or change my story on a whim. I have an outline which I follow…

— Megan Chance

I try to naturally keep things to a manageable storytelling length, which is about two hours, so you try to cut out anything extraneous.

— Martin McDonagh

I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the…

— Zara Cox