Giving Quote by Steve Almond

When I'm feeling frustrated with a story, I have faith that it's going to come. Also, when I first started writing, I wanted to…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I'd done occasional short stories, but I don't like publishing them in literary magazines; they treat you too much like college boys.

— Mark Kurlansky

I’ve taken on some of the emotional weight of the stories I’ve worked on. I was writing about a very difficult time in the…

— Hilary Liftin

My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find…

— Jennifer Gilmore

When I first started writing in my early 20s it was literary criticism for a very eccentric magazine called Books And Bookmen, which allowed…

— Jonathan Meades

I get to use fiction as a way to work out my thinking and to delight readers in the process. I can't think of…

— Ken Liu

I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.

— Abbas Kiarostami

Sometimes the way comes later, when I'm not working or thinking about it at all. When stories don't work, you try to convince yourself…

— Mary J. Miller

I don't abandon stories once I've started working on them. Once I sit down and start a story, I'll be damned if I'm going…

— Kelly Link

I had wanted to be a writer for a very long time, and I had started a lot of books and failed to finish…

— Leigh Bardugo

A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.

— Errol Morris

I don't want to do stories that don't have a heart. I'm just not going to be satisfied with stories where I can't be…

— Aaron Huey