Bits Quote by Marina Warner

Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked…

— Kenneth Koch

I've been taking longer to write stories lately.

— Greg Egan

I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and…

— Rick Bragg

Yeah, I used to write short stories at first, but once you work on something, you want to show people. My peers weren't interested…

— Giveon

I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page…

— James Rollins

Writing is a little box of interest that I take out once in a while.

— Mukul Dev

Usually, I have a lot of acquaintance with the story before I start writing it. When I didn't have regular time to give to…

— Alice Munro

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

— Tobias Lindholm

...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.

— Dodie Smith

Fortunately, the world is full of people with information compulsion who want to tell you their stories. They want to tell you things that…

— Anonymous

It's real easy for me to write a lot of stories. I just go and I live through something, and I go home and…

— Harvey Pekar

I've gotten used to spending more time with heavily narrative stories.

— Joshuah Bearman