I can Quote by Flannery O'Connor

I do better just letting the stories develop. I don't outline very well, and I can't follow it if I do. Once I've outlined…

— Joe R. Lansdale

Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.

— Steve Buscemi

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

— Eudora Welty

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.

— Anish Kapoor

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

What I do with the story itself varies of course, but what I want to do is to present the world so that the…

— Karin Tidbeck

My [story] outlines are usually about 5-6 pages long. I'm essentially telling myself the story in short form. I try to make it clear…

— Chevy Stevens

Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last.

— Dav Pilkey

You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.

— Alice Munro

There are things the story must have or else look incomplete. And these will almost automatically present themselves. When they don't, you are in…

— Chinua Achebe

When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write…

— Lauren DeStefano

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