Half Quote by Hunter S. Thompson

Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest.

— Karen Russell

You break the story first, and then you go into the specifics.

— Seth MacFarlane

Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.

— Ernest Hemingway

Every person has a story and just because you know a part of it doesn't mean you know the whole story.

— Nishan Panwar

What you cut out becomes part of the story you tell.

— Joss Whedon

If a story is in you, it has to come out.

— William Faulkner

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

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

— Alice Munro

There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you…

— Margaret Atwood

Once you know the end of the story, every part of the story contains that end, and is only a way of reaching it.

— Leah Stewart

I don't like getting stuck into someone's definition of what you can or can't do with a story.

— Mark Frost

It is the nature of stories to leave out far more than they include.

— Marion Dane Bauer