Writing Quote by Jeanette Winterson

“Mrs Winterson objected to what I had put in, but it seemed to me that what I had left out was the story's silent…

— Jeanette Winterson

“I knew I must write a novel. But it seemed an impossible thing to do when I had been trying with great difficulty to…

— Hemingway Ernest

“I was a little resentful that when a woman writes, her personal story becomes part of the story, even though the novel is fiction.”

— Roxane Gay

“I don't sit here and make these stories up. They are delivered to me, over time, by some relentless and shadowy demand. Trust me,…

— Julian Lorr

“Great characters tell their own stories. The author just writes it down for them.”

— Molly Evangeline

“It is a still stranger thing that there is nothing so delightful in the world as telling stories. It is far pleasanter than writing…

— Virginia Woolf

“I don’t just want to write a story. I want to pull the reader into my ink so they feel the cold of a…

— Lyn Gardner

“a story is a letter the author writes to himself to tell what he wouldn't discover otherwise.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“In the darkest corners of a writer’s heart, you’ll find the stories that never made it to the page, the ones too painful to…

— Dr. Nitin Chopra

“Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

“She was trying to write a novel, it was so slow, you had to destroy so much and start again; so hard to discover…

— John Fowles

“The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story.”

— Dorothy Gallagher