Creativity and writing Quote by Orson Scott Card

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day.

— Orson Scott Card

There are millions of stories in the world, and several hundred of them good ones.

— Chauncey Depew

The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there…

— R. A. Lafferty

I know some writers that have a million novel ideas, but I don't.

— Laura van den Berg

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

— Flannery O'Connor

Writers 'get started' the day they are born. The minds they bring into the world with them are the amazing machines their stories will…

— Lois Duncan

I see a great lack of stories around. I bought six literary magazines and looked through them to see what people were doing. There…

— Keith Johnstone

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just…

— Terry Pratchett

I do see myself as someone who has a lot of story ideas.

— Jill Abramson

I'm a firm believer in the idea that there are a limited amount of human stories that we tell - there's about seven of…

— Keegan-Michael Key

I always believe that a good story will find its audience and that it will attract different kinds of elements of creative people who…

— Marc Platt

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

— Edna Ferber