Mark Quote by Max Barry

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

— Eudora Welty

The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story, changing the…

— Rebecca Stead

The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh…

— Anonymous

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

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

If you stop to think about it, you’ll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters. The…

— Michael Ende

The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.

— Terry Brooks

“A story unwritten is without beginning or end. But in its potential lies another story; and in the heartbeat before pen meets page, both…

— Nenia Campbell

“Every writer in this book has a slightly different process, but they all start with the same thing: a blank page.”

— Timothy Ferriss

“When your story is written on a piece of paper and that paper gets crumpled up and thrown into a shredder, you can piece…

— Ker Dukey

We need to look at the repetitions in the stories we tell ourselves [and] at the process of the stories rather than merely their…

— Philippa Perry

Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a…

— Kim Edwards