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Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to…

— Octavia E. Butler

Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

— Anonymous

Writing stories, adopting other characters, making up fantastic stories and tales, this is a way of perhaps enhancing who I am. Writing stories takes…

— David Small

If you can discover what you like, if you can discover what you truly believe about most of the major matters of life, you…

— Dorothea Brande

Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.

— William Sleator

The writing itself is the thing that generates stories for me.

— Alice McDermott

Like most writers, I just create because I have a story to tell, really.

— Tom Stoppard

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

— Graham Nash

Creating is one thing; telling the story is one thing. I see myself more as a storyteller than a story creator.

— S. S. Rajamouli

Stories have inspired me all my life. I like reading about what other people have done and it inspires me to share my own…

— Phil Keoghan

I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself.

— Pat Conroy

It's so easy, as a writer, to get stuck in your own head, to live in the little worlds you create. To forget that…

— Celeste Ng