Aim Quote by Henry Seidel Canby

Literally, I see my writing as transcription - a transcription of what I see, hear, think, live.

— Hank Azaria

When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I…

— Truman Capote

A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration.

— Isabel Allende

A writer writes what he knows, in ways that are natural to him.

— Mo Yan

“Story, as I understood it by reading Faulkner, Hardy, Cather, and Hemingway, was a powerful and clarifying human invention. The language alone, as I…

— Barry Lopez

If you want to be a fiction writer, you need to start reading like a fiction writer. To do so, you need to learn…

— John McNally

“A story is a letter the author writes to himself”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.”

— Federico Chini

At this moment, the story in his head was perfect. He also knew from experience that it would degenerate the second he started typing,…

— Sara Gruen

“The story I'm writing finds its own voice while I'm writing it.”

— Holly Lisle

Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos.

— Mindy Kaling

“Writers by nature are subversive, observant, and discerning, and their voice contains that.”

— Amy Tan