Admired Quote by Jhumpa Lahiri

Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.

— Barbara Mertz

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.

— Annie Proulx

The writing itself is the thing that generates stories for me.

— Alice McDermott

“...There is no such thing as a story. The words on paper are only instructions used by each reader to create a story. The…

— Damon Knight

“The process of writing can be magical — there times when you step out of an upper-floor window and you just walk across thin…

— Neil Gaiman

“Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.”

— Federico Chini

“In the very act of writing I felt pleased with what I did. There was the pleasure of having words come to me, and…

— Tobias Wolff

The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.

— Ernest Hemingway

I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a…

— Henning Mankell

It's the form it takes when it comes out the other side, of course, that gives a story something unique--its life. The story, in…

— Eudora Welty

“I am a storyteller, for better and for worse. I suspect that a feeling for stories, for narrative, is a universal human disposition, going…

— Oliver Sacks

“Every skillful writer foregrounds notable aspects of experience, details that might otherwise be lost in the mass of data that continuously bathes our senses…

— Alain de Botton