Always Quote by Sudha Murty

I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time to look…

— Desmond Dekker

The stories tend to be what I work on when I'm stuck. Something will just pop into my head and I'll think that's more…

— Jess Walter

For someone who wants to write a story, they should go on thinking about the story. When it comes up to a level, where…

— Sudha Murty

“I suppose I've never set out to write a novel in which nothing happens . . . only to write a novel about the…

— Alice McDermott

The way I write, I need to tell the true story. I can't just make a story up. So I have to let the…

— Giveon

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of…

— Eudora Welty

Some of the best things that have happened in my stories have happened seemingly of their own accord. The writer becomes a listener, just…

— Will Hobbs

When I start writing, my unconscious, my conflicts, my thoughts all start to come up. So for me, writing is an exploration. I never…

— Janet Fitch

I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I would like…

— Louis Begley

Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a…

— Kim Edwards

When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write…

— Lauren DeStefano

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

— Eudora Welty