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Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature. — O. Henry

I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2. — O. Henry

I'm trying to write stories that are interesting and enjoyable. — Arthur Bradford

We write to share the deepest heart-talk of our souls. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one. — Eudora Welty

Your life is a story. Write the one you want to read. — A.D. Posey

I've always written stories from female perspectives. That it's one of the reasons I write, to have that experience. — Vestal McIntyre

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories. — Bobby McFerrin

My grandchildren will be making money from the stories I write and sell as eBooks because they will continue to be making money. — J.A. Konrath

I was trying to learn to write stories, and was reading O'Hara and Hemingway as a carpenter might look at an excellent house someone else has built. — Andre Dubus

I use Fiction to face Reality And write dark Stories in hope to brighten my Path. — A. Mani

I read a lot of autobiographical stories, and I write plays and prose. And I play piano and cello. A lot of my downtime is devoted to that. — Alexis Dziena

What makes my work my own is where I'm writing from. And I feel like I have a million stories to write about Chicago. — Joe Meno

Growing up, I used to climb out my window onto the roof and look up at the stars. There, in the quiet, I would write stories inside my head. — Christy Hall

Have the courage to walk in truth, the strength to love always, and the integrity to never stray away from doing so. — A.D. Posey

I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to. — Fay Weldon

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories. — Thomas Keller

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

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards. — Antony Beevor

The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally. — Gary Gygax

I really do feel like I was born to write and tell stories. — Christopher Barzak

We all just need to be real. That is what will save us. — A.D. Posey

I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them. — George R R Martin

With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories. — Hannibal Buress

Someone has to write all those stories: why not me? — Elizabeth Gilbert

Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories. — Jonah Lehrer

I've been taking longer to write stories lately. — Greg Egan

One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them. — Todd Solondz

Give all of life's oxygen to the fire that is your soul. — A.D. Posey

You know, I'm trying to sometimes sit down and write some stories about my childhood and maybe one when I'm an old lady put them out like a book. — Shelby Lynne

Why write stories? To join the conversation. — Dorothy Allison

It's real easy for me to write a lot of stories. I just go and I live through something, and I go home and write about it. It's that quick. — Harvey Pekar

At Marvel, I was lucky enough to work with really talented people, but I always had this nagging thought: 'One day I'll write my own stories.' — David Mazzucchelli

That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal. — Jesmyn Ward

I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died. — Karin Slaughter

I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself. — Aleksandar Hemon

I'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my story. — Lucy Hale

Once I started writing novels, I understood how hard it was to write really good short stories. — Elizabeth McCracken

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row. — Ray Bradbury

I never sat down and said, 'I'm going to write historical fiction with strong romantic elements.' It was just the way the stories went. — Lauren Willig

There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living - cook books and detective stories. — Rex Stout

Your life is truly your life ... it belongs to you. It is your story to write with love. Day by day, line by line, write it well — Lance Wubbels

My favorite form is the short story. From an aesthetics stand point you really have to pare down to the bone. You can't write a throw-away scene. — Roger Zelazny

I seem to only write New York stories because it's the only thing that inspires or interests me. — Jennifer Westfeldt

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better. — Anne Lamott

No one writes to make money. Authors write stories to fill the world with imagination for those who have a hard time finding their own. — S.L. Perrine

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages. — Ruskin Bond

We all write stories in our minds, but only few have the courage to put them on paper. — Sabine Shah

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 chances. — John Steinbeck

A good preview makes you can't wait to see the whole movie. — A.D. Posey

Writers need restrictions. If somebody just says, "Hey, do you want to write a novel, or an article, or a movie, or a short story, you get shut down." — Mitchell Hurwitz

Us writers all like each other and want to write stories with each other; we're having a good time. — Charles Soule

I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script. — Melanie Lynskey

Aside from the Rizzoli & Isles books, there are many other stories I want to write. The question is whether I'll live long enough to write them all! — Tess Gerritsen

People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens. — Chuck Palahniuk

I'm trying to write a book based on myself, but i keep changing. — Brandon Stanton

You have to live your story before being able to write your story. — Amy Shearn

For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel, — Alice Munro

To my words: There was once a wall between us. Now we walk together and greet the world. — A.D. Posey

If I were to write the story of my life, I would shock the world. — Caterina Sforza

The only thing worth thinking about, when I write a story, is whether I like it, whether I want to write it, whether it excites me. — Theodora Goss

I think a lot of the way that I try to write my stories come from watching my mom write plays and trying to do that. — Jazmine Sullivan

I guess when you write a personal story, people feel compelled to share their own stories. — Darin Strauss

I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically. — Andrew Davies

Don't try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them. — Ray Bradbury

I wanted to write at school - to write funny stories which the teacher might ask me to read out to the class. It's all basically about showing off. — Mark Billingham

I would like to continue to tell stories of what I did in a biographical way, so I will continue to write. — Philippe Petit

Africa's story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story. — Paul Kagame

I was quite shy. I used to write stories all the time, and I think that was a worry for my parents. — Anne-Marie Duff

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there. — Anthony Bourdain

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical. — Mark Mothersbaugh

I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head. — Walter Dean Myers

I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it. — Flannery O'Connor

Every day's to-do list.
1.) Listen
2.) Trust
3.) Do — A.D. Posey

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life. — Ray Bradbury

Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up. — Stephen King

You'll go mad trying to figure out what people want. I don't bother. I write the stories I want to read. — Kelly Sue DeConnick

Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little short story. — Julia Child

It might be more difficult because you haven't got a book or a prop, but for the most part I like to write unpaid ... initially and my own stories. — Peter Morgan

Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories. — James Patterson

When people write to me with stories, they are never ones that work for me. There's something mysterious about which ones catch you. — Emma Donoghue

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard. — Tracy Kidder

The power of owning our stories, even the difficult ones, is that we get to write the ending. — Brene Brown

I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books - just in case I up and die. — Anatoly Rybakov

Remember the stories you used to write? About that billionaire. You made fun of his fingers! Woo-hooo. 'Short-fingered vulgarian,' you called him. — Candace Bushnell

Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my favorite stories, — Stephen King

Don't allow people to define you based on reading the abstract of your story without even reading chapter 1. Continue to write the remaining chapters. — Assegid Habtewold

I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like 'Stop moaning and write something.' — Noel Clarke

Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child. And, there is some truth to that. — Stephen King

All those stories need different endings - which is possible because it's my life and I do have the privelege of being able to write the story. — Laura Fraser

I like to write adventure stories; that's what I tell myself. But you can't help letting your own personality, your own experiences, slip through. — Mick Farren

When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too. — Sharon Creech

I knew I couldn't do what Eddie Izzard does, so I just tried to write some stories that were based, or partly based, on my own experiences. — Deirdre O'Kane

The only way to live several lives in one lifespan is to write stories. — Vishwas Mudagal

I will continue to write moral stories in rhymed couplets. But I should be thrice a fool if I did it for aught but my own entertainment. — W. Somerset Maugham

I wanted to write a balls-to-the-wall supernatural horror story, something I haven't done in a long time. — Stephen King

Write and your experiences with others. Never underestimate your writings. It can bring hope and inspiration to many people. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups. — Emma Thompson

I do not use my intellect to write my stories and books; I have a gut reaction to the things that my subconscious gives me. — Ray Bradbury