Answer Quote by Ken Liu

The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me, sometimes they come from experiences in…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

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

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story.

— John Waters

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

Ideas for stories come in really different terms and really different ways for me. Sometimes they're from books, sometimes they're just kind of out…

— Brian Evenson

Most of my stories are ideas in action. In other words, I get a concept, and I let it run away. I find a…

— Ray Bradbury

Sometimes, I get ideas from dreams. Often, my stories are based on adventures that I, or my friends, have actually lived.

— Brian Jacques

If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.

— Ira Glass

I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind,…

— David Levithan

Once I have the idea for a story. I start collecting all kinds of helpful information and storing it in three-ring notebooks. For example,…

— Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

The stories tend to be what I work on when I'm stuck. Something will just pop into my head and I'll think that's more…

— Jess Walter