Letters Quote by Theodore Sturgeon

So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the…

— Jack Vance

I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.

— Alistair MacLeod

This is not necessarily the answer people want, but ultimately, I think writing is an amoral process. Your ultimate responsibility is to the truth…

— Lynn Coady

If the story wasn't overly long, I'd type it out. And I'd carry it around with me for a week and jot notes on…

— Donald Ray Pollock

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there…

— Neil Gaiman

I love bouncing my words off of someone else's, and the fact that writing a story with someone else guarantees you'll get something you…

— David Levithan

Write your own story... because you never want to end up just a footnote in somebody else's story.

— JOHNREYES

Writing is an extremely rewarding and humbling process, and I've learned to go with it, that even if it feels absolutely impossible, I will…

— Marie Lu

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

— Alice Munro

My job is to form the people, the story, the sentences. Every reader will bring their own life and their own history to the…

— Amy Bloom

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

— Eudora Welty

I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my…

— John Steinbeck