Stories Quote by Tobias Wolff

I started writing stories in my spare time.

— Ken Follett

Usually, I have a lot of acquaintance with the story before I start writing it. When I didn't have regular time to give to…

— Alice Munro

Weirdly the writing experience has not really changed that much except it used to be that I was busy because I had to work…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

I never started writing because I wanted to write myself stuff. It was really more that I had these stories to tell, and I…

— Josh Lawson

I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I started writing short stories, sort of…

— Jasper Fforde

I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me a lot…

— Barbara Hamby

I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories.

— Kate DiCamillo

I never wanted to be a writer; I just had stories I needed to tell.

— Sefi Atta

I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I…

— Jami Attenberg

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire…

— Rita Dove

I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.

— Marisha Pessl

I can't really write unless I'm full of inspiration. And even then I can't write unless I have some alone time.

— Brett Dennen