Bits Quote by Marion Dane Bauer

Work extra hard on the beginning of your story, so it snares reader's instantly. And know how you're going to end your story before…

— Joan Lowery Nixon

Writing a story is like going down a path in the woods. You follow the path. You don't worry about getting lost. You just…

— Jan Brett

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

— Eudora Welty

The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your head, there's…

— Colm Toibin

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

Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.

— Barbara Mertz

a good writer should draw the reader in by starting in the middle of the story with a hook, then go back and fill…

— Roland Smith

Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

— Gilda Radner

“You couldn’t control how your story started, but you can write a few good pages in there”

— Mustafa Saifuddin

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

I never start with the story first, which is maybe obvious, because the narrative line of my films is really not that strong or…

— Jim Jarmusch

Writing is not what you start. It's not even what you finish. It's what you start, finish, and put out there for the world…

— Nell Scovell