Always Quote by Karl Iagnemma

...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.

— Dodie Smith

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

— Flannery O'Connor

I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings.…

— Ted Naifeh

“Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page any more than they begin on the first page”

— Cornelia Funke

Everyone has a story, most just look at the cover, very few take time to read it.

— KR Johnson

Every writer knows a lot more about their characters and story than actually makes it onto the page.

— Robin Hobb

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

Some people ask why we don't just wait until we have the whole story before posting. The fact is that we sometimes can't get…

— Michael Arrington

For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I've been taking longer to write stories lately.

— Greg Egan

The hardest part is telling one's story. Once the story is on the page, the rest will come.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that are half…

— Alice Lowe