Adds Quote by Octavia E. Butler

Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself. Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little,…

— Octavia Butler

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

As my life changes, it gives me new things to write about.

— Jason Isbell

As a writer, I try to turn my feelings and experiences into a different form entirely, something that gives me mastery over them and…

— Scott Spencer

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

— Lincoln Child

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

I try to do stories that make a difference -- stories that affect the way people think, stories that people need to hear --…

— Ann Curry

It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my own work…

— J. Michael Straczynski

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

— William Sleator

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

A lot of my writing is basically about observation, and things that I've seen, either through personal experiences or the experiences of people around…

— John Trudell

I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then it is…

— Etgar Keret