Appeals Quote by Stephen King

When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

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

For me as a writer, the story has always taken precedence over everything else. I have never sat down to write with broad, sweeping…

— Khaled Hosseini

People think you have to go through something to write about it, and you absolutely do not. You can write about, like, a shoe.…

— Billie Eilish

I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up the story,…

— Emily Susan Rapp

It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story.

— Greg Kinnear

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

I tend to be drawn more to people than pure story ideas.

— Steven Soderbergh

Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The…

— Ashwin Sanghi

I think that, as a writer, while it's your job to construct stories, you have to navigate your way through them with your heart.

— Abi Morgan

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.

— David Ogden Stiers

With a novel, you have to have a story. It's much more important to have it matter to the reader what happens to people,…

— Dave Barry