Age Quote by Ken Liu

I always wrote. I've written stories since I was 9. We didn't have a computer at home, but my aunt Magda had one. Whenever…

— Xavier Dolan

Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike. But for…

— Junot Diaz

I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to come up with characters that are not me.

— Miranda July

Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.

— Sarah Zettel

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think…

— Flannery O'Connor

Undoubtedly the stories about them [hard-boiled detectives] had a fantastic element. Such things happened, but not so rapidly, nor to so close-knit a group…

— Raymond Chandler

Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.

— Greg Kinnear

I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing…

— Joel Coen

I am tired of reading reviews that call A Good Man brutal and sarcastic. The stories are hard but they are hard because there…

— Flannery O'Connor

“stories can be hard to find when you go looking for one, rather then letting one find you.”

— Aric Davis

I find most 'rules' about how to write a 'good story' confining, and I enjoy writing stories that don't look like stories at all…

— Ken Liu

The 'Grace of Kings' isn't a narrative about a return to some golden age, to a lost status quo ante. It portrays a dynamic…

— Ken Liu