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Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write.

— Per Petterson

Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.

— Ernest Hemingway

When you first start writing-and I think it's true for a lot of beginning writers-you're scared to death that if you don't get that…

— Toni Morrison

I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a…

— Amy Hempel

When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.

— Imtiaz Ali

It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else.

— Margaret Atwood

It's a funny thing about writing. You get so balled up in a story idea that you lose your perspective and forget that human…

— Gary Reilly

What's important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can never change.…

— Pat Conroy

It seems like as soon as you have written something, it dictates a story. So I need to be careful.

— Tobias Lindholm

When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.

— Stephen King

With any piece of writing, you're hoping that it will change something, and it seldom does.

— Ron Chernow

If a story is in you, it has to come out.

— William Faulkner