Actually Quote by Jhumpa Lahiri

A lot of time, with stories, I'll start out with a title and try to dream myself into the story that it evokes -…

— Dan Chaon

Eventually, I started writing down a bunch of titles that related to childhood themes and would pair it with an adult situation that either…

— Melanie Martinez

I came up with a story and I wrote it.

— E. L. James

It is important for me to discover the ideal title, for without this title the story or novel isn't quite in focus.

— Joyce Carol Oates

A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.

— Walker Percy

As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from…

— Anonymous

An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.

— Amy Hempel

Once, I thought I had a novel, and it turned out it was only a short story. I wrote about 800 pages, but it…

— Richard Bausch

I would have loved to have heard a story like mine. I could have used it as an inspiration to get by.

— Ilhan Omar

From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the…

— Jean M. Auel

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.

— Richard Russo

I would try to write my own story about some East Coast suburbanite having an affair or something like that. So I did that…

— Donald Ray Pollock