Break Quote by Seth MacFarlane

Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest.

— Karen Russell

Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.

— Eudora Welty

I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.

— Truman Capote

Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.

— Ernest Hemingway

You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.

— Alice Munro

I try to do the story the way I feel the story should be done, and how that folds into whatever larger sorts of…

— David Milch

If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Eventually the writing takes time. What I want to do is get the story down and I want to know what happens as I…

— Philip Roth

The big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what’s the right way to tell a particular story.

— Richard Linklater

There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you…

— Margaret Atwood

The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That's where the story is going and how it's going to end. Or else you'll go off in…

— Hunter S. Thompson

The hardest part is telling one's story. Once the story is on the page, the rest will come.

— Jacqueline Woodson