Attention Quote by Mario Vargas Llosa

When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let things come…

— Asghar Farhadi

My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am…

— William Trevor

Everyone has a story, the air is full of stories. The creative process is mysterious, I don't know why it is that suddenly a…

— Isabel Allende

I am quite a dreamer, and usually when someone tells a story, I tend to get distracted easily.

— Keerthy Suresh

Thinking that your story is so interesting that other people will want to listen to it or read it or pay to hear it,…

— Anthony Bourdain

Writing stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for a while,…

— Emma Donoghue

Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the single, simple…

— John Updike

I think that the way that I write stories is by instinct. You have some basic ideas - a character, or an image, or…

— Dan Chaon

When you're a writer and something difficult happens to you, one of the things involved in that is this emergence of narrative potential. And…

— Leslie Jamison

Sometimes, I get ideas from dreams. Often, my stories are based on adventures that I, or my friends, have actually lived.

— Brian Jacques

“The writer's craft, explained! I have stood on the shores of imagination, gazing at a sea of dreams. It is a lonely place, for…

— Barry Woodham

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

— Imtiaz Ali