Ears Quote by Jerry Spinelli

To know whom to write for is to know how to write.

— Virginia Woolf

I don't really decide what the core of the story is before I write. I write to figure out what the story is. And…

— Greta Gerwig

I write the story as it comes to me - YA is my natural voice, not a conscious choice.

— Marie Lu

I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then it is…

— Etgar Keret

A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the one who…

— Michelle Richmond

If you only hear one side of the story, at some point, you have to question who the writer is.

— Clint Smith

A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: “Whom do you write for?” The question…

— Anonymous

“Tell your story. Don't try and tell the stories that other people can tell. Any starting writer starts out with other people's voices. But…

— Neil Gaiman

“If you don't write the story, who will?”

— Ora Rosalin

“Keep in mind that the only person to write for is yourself.Tell the story you most desperately want to read.”

— Susan Issacs

I'm a storyteller; I write what I want to read.

— Jackie Collins

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

— Holly Lisle