Art Quote by Mary J. Miller

Writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary steps towards a novel. Stories just don't often make…

— James Lasdun

With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working…

— William Faulkner

I think many people have wonderful stories inside them and the talent to tell those stories. But the writing life, with its isolation and…

— Ellen Ullman

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with…

— William Shatner

What's important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can never change.…

— Pat Conroy

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

Telling a story is like trying to eat grapes with a fork. It's always trying to get away from you. And if you're a…

— Brent Weeks

Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny…

— Emma Donoghue

The real skill of being a writer is being able to take your inspired moments, and make them work as a whole, through the…

— Nick Blaemire

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.

— Howard Gordon

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

— Imtiaz Ali

It's true that writing can give new forms to concepts that existed previously with far less clarity, but in terms of the other half…

— Helen Oyeyemi