Quote by Len Wein

Sometimes I get the story wrong, or it's the wrong story, and then things don't work.

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

If something isn't working, if you have a story that you've built and it's blocked and you can't figure it out, take your favorite…

— Joss Whedon

There are things the story must have or else look incomplete. And these will almost automatically present themselves. When they don't, you are in…

— Chinua Achebe

When I start a story, I don't know where it's going.

— Stephen King

Perhaps you're not finished with your story, and who knows if you'll ever finish it or not. Honestly, it's not that important.

— Anonymous

A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

— Ernest Hemingway

Sometimes the way comes later, when I'm not working or thinking about it at all. When stories don't work, you try to convince yourself…

— Mary J. Miller

Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.

— Salman Rushdie

I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. ... Of course, it rarely ends that way.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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

If a novel or a story works, you don't stop thinking about it; it doesn't truly end.

— Peter Orner