Details Quote by John Darnielle

I could never do just one thing, but everything I do is in the direction of stories. Sometimes writing them, sometimes showcasing them, sometimes…

— Damian Barr

You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.

— Maurice Sendak

People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and somehow turns…

— Janet Evanovich

I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to.

— Fay Weldon

I make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse.

— Federico Fellini

Like most writers, I just create because I have a story to tell, really.

— Tom Stoppard

I try to write about things that actually happened so that I know it's real before I put it down on paper.

— John Prine

That's how I work, whether with stories or novels - they start with an image that comes to me in a daydream, and a…

— Dan Chaon

I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the…

— Al Yankovic

Usually, I have a lot of acquaintance with the story before I start writing it. When I didn't have regular time to give to…

— Alice Munro

I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my…

— John Steinbeck