Any Quote by Denis Johnson

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money,…

— Denis Johnson

I started writing stories in my spare time.

— Ken Follett

I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.

— Robert Sheckley

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

— Naguib Mahfouz

Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.

— Tobias Wolff

I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books -…

— Anatoly Rybakov

I have written stories since I was a child.

— Rachel Joyce

I'd been writing stories since I was a child. I wrote little books for my mom and bound them myself with needle and thread.…

— Tess Gerritsen

I have no story. My story goes from day to day.

— Robert Plant

At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

— Umberto Eco

I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories.

— Kate DiCamillo

I never finished any of my early stories. They were all beginnings, an endless number of beginnings.

— George R. R. Martin