Creativity and writing Quote by Orson Scott Card Download Open image “Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day.” — Orson Scott Card ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Creativity and writing Every day Famous writers Fiction writers Fiction writing Great writing Ideas Inspiration to write Novel writing Past Stories Story writers Story writing Thousand Walks Writers and writing Writing Writing by writers Writing every day Writing fiction Writing scripts Writing stories Written
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It's not just that everyone has a story. It's that everyone has a thousand stories. Everyone is infinite. — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
There are millions of stories in the world, and several hundred of them good ones. — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Give a hundred writers the same idea and you'll get a hundred different stories.” — Joy Fielding Copy Share Image
Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward. — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Now and again thousands of memories converge, harmonize, arrange themselves around a central idea in a coherent form, and I write a story. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The way we as a world consume stories - and sometimes people - is a phenomenon that we're seeing much more of now. — Brian McGinn Copy Share Image
We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Why did he hesitate? He finally admitted to himself that he was like an American child who was almost completely certain about Santa Claus,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I don't know of a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines - the ones they believe they believe; and the ones… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The devil?” Jason heaved the tick over his shoulder like a collier with his sack. “Satan. The adversary. The enemy of the plan of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclusive than any other genre of contemporary literature.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Ender, for the past few months you have been the battle commander of our fleets. This was the Third Invasion. There were no games,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed. — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor. — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all… — David Brin Copy Share Image