Action Quote by Ray Bradbury

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

— Jill Abramson

Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me, sometimes they come from experiences in…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

I think that the way that I write stories is by instinct. You have some basic ideas - a character, or an image, or…

— Dan Chaon

Ideas come from life: what happens in mine, what I see happening in others', mixed with a great deal of imagination. I might see…

— Elizabeth Berg

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story.

— John Waters

Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.

— Anonymous

I'm often asked how I get ideas for my stories. The answer is there's no single way; every story is different.

— Ken Liu

Ideas for stories come in really different terms and really different ways for me. Sometimes they're from books, sometimes they're just kind of out…

— Brian Evenson

My stories often begin with a situation or character rather than an insight about the human condition. It's always been difficult for me to…

— Karl Iagnemma

Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward.

— Michael Scott

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by…

— Roddy Doyle

Sometimes, I get ideas from dreams. Often, my stories are based on adventures that I, or my friends, have actually lived.

— Brian Jacques