Crash Quote by Erica Brown

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

I was always writing on something: short stories and journal entries of what had happened that day, always thinking about something to write down.

— Tyler Childers

Ideas for stories come in really different terms and really different ways for me. Sometimes they're from books, sometimes they're just kind of out…

— Brian Evenson

I'm always reading. And I keep a whole list of stories, often unusual stories. There are a hundred some-odd ideas on that list.

— Joshuah Bearman

Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.

— Brian Keene

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story.

— John Waters

There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.

— Malik Bendjelloul

I've been writing big stories of history, but there are a lot of fascinating little stories.

— H. W. Brands

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

— Isabel Allende

Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good…

— Stephen King

I started writing stories in my spare time.

— Ken Follett

I have so many ideas and stories that I want to tell. But sitting down to write is a hard thing to do.

— Pauline Chalamet