Am Quote by Lauren DeStefano

As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from…

— Anonymous

For someone who wants to write a story, they should go on thinking about the story. When it comes up to a level, where…

— Sudha Murty

When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.

— Alistair MacLeod

The way I write, I need to tell the true story. I can't just make a story up. So I have to let the…

— Giveon

The writing itself is the thing that generates stories for me.

— Alice McDermott

I am generally writing about things happening in my own life, in what I hope is a very relatable way.

— Taylor Tomlinson

I like to write about stories and life experiences of me, the people around us, and just the things I see on the telly…

— Sam Fender

Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.

— Eudora Welty

I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I would like…

— Louis Begley

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have…

— Tracy Kidder

I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself.

— Pat Conroy