Next Quote by Eudora Welty

Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.

— Eudora Welty

Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.

— Eudora Welty

The story is always better than your ability to write it.

— Robin McKinley

I fundamentally believe that no one can teach you how to write - finding out how to write a story is part of the…

— Uzodinma Iweala

Every time you finish something ... you figure you've finally learned to write, right? Then you start something else and it turns out you…

— Grace Paley

Delia Sherman once told me that you never learn to write a story. You only learn to write the story you are currently writing.…

— Theodora Goss

The writing itself is the thing that generates stories for me.

— Alice McDermott

Writing is an extremely rewarding and humbling process, and I've learned to go with it, that even if it feels absolutely impossible, I will…

— Marie Lu

Stories often take their own course once you start to write them, especially when you have the benefit of a writers' room and a…

— Bryan Konietzko

Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.

— Barbara Mertz

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

— Flannery O'Connor

Writing a novel is always complicated, it's not like you snap your fingers and go, 'Ah, I know what I'll write'. For me, a…

— Reif Larsen