Beats Quote by Peter Orner

When someone tells you a story of how they wrecked someone, it's only a matter of time until it's your turn.

— Anonymous

My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way.

— Donald McKay

I don't start a story until I know where it's going to end.

— Brian K. Vaughan

The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you…

— John Eldredge

For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel,

— Alice Munro

I was always looking for holes in the stories, to the very end, until I was really satisfied that I believed in it and…

— Erin Siegal McIntyre

When I begin to write a story, I usually know how things will end. It's the journey toward that point I must discover. The…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is…

— Donna Tartt

I never finished any of my early stories. They were all beginnings, an endless number of beginnings.

— George R. R. Martin

I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand…

— Orson Scott Card

When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one…

— Tom Hanks