Stories Quote by Pat Murphy

“When you write a story, don't just write it - live it; When putting words into the mouth of a protagonist (or any character)…

— Arti Honrao

I'll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. Write stories that please yourself. There is no rule…

— O. Henry

I myself, as I'm writing, don't know who did it. The readers and I are on the same ground. When I start to write…

— Haruki Murakami

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets…

— Caroline B. Cooney

“My wish has always been to write my own story, to create a life that’s worth writing about. But is a story worth anything…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“If it were up to me..." and then the words pound, desperate and hard, "I'd write this story differently."... "Just that maybe... maybe you…

— Ann Voskamp

To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on…

— Anonymous

For me, the enemy is procrastination, and losing attention, you know? It's not the writing that's difficult, it's sitting down to write - if…

— Moshe Kasher

“Remember that this is the first of four days of writing. In today’s writing, your goal is to write about your deepest thoughts and…

— James W. Pennebaker

The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand readers or…

— Jo Nesbo

I really, really enjoy fitting words together - but I only enjoy it when it's easy, when it sort of rolls along by itself.…

— Fiona Apple