Reputation Quote by Mae West

I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.

— Mae West

There is no story unless you've written it.

— Hunter S. Thompson

The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.

— Ernest Hemingway

I came up with a story and I wrote it.

— E. L. James

August Strindberg gave me the opportunity to have this incredible story [Miss Julie ], about the class system, about unfairness in life, but also…

— Liv Ullmann

I never like to put myself in the stories; in 'Lost in the City,' there are fourteen stories, and there's only one, 'The First…

— Edward P. Jones

I believe the first story I ever wrote was about a young girl who was terribly mistreated by her very cruel parents, and one…

— Victoria Laurie

Find the story you want to tell. If you don't want to write it, find somebody to write it.

— Annette Bening

“It was the kind of story everybody likes, about a tough girl who becomes a truer version of herself by uncovering her vulnerability. It…

— Chris Kraus

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

— Chinua Achebe

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime…

— Beth Henley

Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.

— Eudora Welty