Stories Quote by Pat Murphy

“You think you know how a story begins, or how it's going to turn out, especially when it's your own. You don't.”

— Edan Lepucki

“Like most writers, I tend to find out what I feel on a subject by writing about it. It is how we interpret the…

— Robert Galbraith

“First, you have to think and think and think and think; then you have to force yourself to write it down.”

— Agatha Christie

“I never used to write down all the ideas that occur to me while writing. I believed if I forgot them they were not…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Sometimes it takes heart to write about a thing, doesn't it? To let that thing out of the room way in the back of…

— Stephen King

“I never worry about “thinking up” an idea for a story. I watch the people around me. Each one is a story.”

— Marion Reidel

“Don’t tell me to write your story. Write your own story. If you won’t write it down, it probably isn’t worth writing down—or reading.”

— Jarod Kintz

“When you read a book, you don't give up on it. You might soon feel like your part of the story.”

— Kiersten White

“It's like all of the thoughts and feelings that i had scribbled down were lost along with the journals that held them. But i…

— Kyung-sook Shin

“I try to say what I feel Without thinking about what I feel. I try to place words right next to my idea So…

— Fernando Pessoa

“I've always loved books. I was an avid reader, with any number of my own stories rolling around in my head. Writing them down…

— Kat Martin