Believe Quote by James Frey

You're always looking for some new way to tell the same story, but it's how they get to the happy end that is the…

— Lisa Kleypas

It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel…

— Stephenie Meyer

And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I…

— Tobias Wolff

I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough.

— Anne Roiphe

But nothing has replaced the writer. He or she is still stuck with the same old job of saying something that other people will…

— Anonymous

I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.

— Dan Harmon

The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.

— Ernest Hemingway

Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can ake over as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it…

— Margaret Mahy

A new writer starting out today, whether it's for TV or film, they have to remember that they're telling the story to themselves first…

— Tony Grisoni

For as long as writers have written, they've had second thoughts about their work.

— Maria Konnikova

Most writers do similar things in their minds. It's how the mind works, basically.

— Raymond Pettibon