Another Quote by Donald Ray Pollock

I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.

— Michael Ondaatje

So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the…

— Jack Vance

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.

— Theodore Sturgeon

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to…

— George Saunders

Find the story you want to tell. If you don't want to write it, find somebody to write it.

— Annette Bening

Write your own story... because you never want to end up just a footnote in somebody else's story.

— JOHNREYES

Eventually the writing takes time. What I want to do is get the story down and I want to know what happens as I…

— Philip Roth

The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes.…

— Neil Gaiman

I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.

— Ernest Hemingway

I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind,…

— David Levithan

The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.

— W. Somerset Maugham