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The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling. — Richard Russo

Don't compare your story to a movie or a book because it is written by a script writer and yours by God — Anonymous

Mistakes in a work of fiction by a writer are new discoveries by the reader, that create a new ending for the story. — Kambiz Mostofizadeh

I'm not trying as a writer to be smart or to understand the inner workings of my narrator, I'm trying to survive the typing of this story. — Ron Carlson

I've wanted to direct for a long time, but it had to be a story I wanted to tell. The writer's job is to find the story that he should tell. — Peter Hedges

There are more people involved in telling a story than the writer. — Cecelia Ahern

You are the writer of your life story; so don't forget to write the best one. — Debasish Mridha

The whispers of a story is the beginning of every writer's journey. — Jen Golembiewski

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

Both types of books - fiction and nonfiction - are a search for story. As a writer and a reader, there's nothing I crave more than a good story! — Susan Campbell Bartoletti

If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused. — Lance Armstrong

It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it. — Seeley James

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain. — Laura Riding

Be careful what you say and do around a writer; your words and actions may become material. — A.D. Posey

This story was a story of our time. And a writer's attempts not to fathom his time amount but to sounding his mind in it. — Louis Zukofsky

Usually writer's block arises when something is wrong internally with the story. — Meg Cabot

It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow. — Michael Ondaatje

There is no one like you on this planet. Not everyone may have the gift of being a good writer, but each one of us has a story to tell. — K.J. Kilton

Originality is not writing the story that has never been told, but writing the stories only you can tell. — M. Kirin

I'm a competent novelist. I'm getting better. But I'm a really good short story writer. — Tim Pratt

Writers do not have the privilege of sleep. There is always a story coming alive in their heads, constantly composing. Whether they choose it or not. — Coco J. Ginger

Every story holds insight into the writer's soul. If the soul can't be found, the writer didn't bleed enough. — M.L. Stephens

Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are. — Jo Deurbrouck

The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty. — Gail Caldwell

I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that are half an hour long. — Alice Lowe

Not knowing stuff - like how your story ends before you start writing - is the seed of a lot of writer's block. — Dan Alatorre

A writer is a river. Everything flows and changes and we're never the same person as the one who wrote yesterday's story. — Aleksandr Voinov

I'd hire the devil himself as a writer if he gave me a good story ... — Samuel Goldwyn

The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer. — Ann Voskamp

I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels. — Nell Freudenberger

Hackle may be the best absurdist story writer working today. — Bradley Sands

Being a writer is a good, good thing. — Shannon Hale

As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Don't give up. Research like crazy. Join a writer's organization. Read books on the publishing world. It all helps! — Darynda Jones

Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories. — Nell Freudenberger

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense. — Ernest Gaines

In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially. — Ray Bradbury

I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn. — Irwin Winkler

As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work. — Joseph Boyden

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story. — Eric Brown

In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter. — Annie Proulx

There is no idea so stupid or hackneyed that a sufficiently-talented writer can't get a good story out of it. — Lawrence Watt-Evans

For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach up and pick it. — Ursula K. Le Guin

A story is a part of the writer's soul, told to the world. — T.A. Uner

To the extent that the short story is an art, Sturgeon is the American short-story writer. — Samuel R. Delany

What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it. — David Simon

The writer ultimately tires of the subject's self-serving story, and substitutes a story of his own. — Janet Malcolm

Felicia's Journey by the Irish short-story writer and novelist William Trevor. — Will Schwalbe

Cure for writer's block: blow something up(in the story) — Scott Westerfeld

We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a writer's friend. — Abbi Jacobson

Tom Kealey might be my favorite short story writer and this astonishing collection is long overdue. — Stephen Elliott

It's why I am a writer...To avoid the narrow mesh of Mrs Winterson's story I had to be able to tell my own. — Jeanette Winterson

You know I'm a writer. I can't tell you everything in the beginning. Then there's no point to the story. — Tiffany Reisz

The first draft of a story is the writer's clay. — Bruce Coville

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

I began to feel that itch that every writer longs for: the itch to start getting words down, the itch to tell a story. — Patrick Ness

Writing a story bends time and warps reality. It gives the writer prior knowledge in the reader's future... — RO Smit

Theme is not imposed on the story but evoked from within it- initially an intuitive but finally an intellectual act on the part of a writer. — John Gardner

For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own story. — Sonia Rykiel

The mark of a writer is to make a story as likely as possible, and I've done my best to deliver authentic atmosphere. — Philip Kerr

My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever. — Irwin Shaw

The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story. — Carol Bly

As a fiction writer, let me make it up, and let me make it up to you. I'll pen our love story, if you'll be my co-author. — Jarod Kintz

As a writer you can and should expect to hear conflicting responses to your story. — John Dufresne

Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer. — Jean Little

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. — Lynn Abbey

A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story. — Eyvind Johnson

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 wanted to do or be. — Jami Attenberg

A writer concocts a different story for every reader. — Mike Bryan

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father. — Salman Rushdie

As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story. — Jay Asher

In the country of the story the writer is king. — Shirley Jackson

I would like to write my life story, but it seems to write itself. — T.D. Mulhern

A photographer is like a writer ... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story. — Habib Umar Bin Hafiz

I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library. — Karin Slaughter

If you fall in love with a writer, find your story in a book some day. — Arvind Parashar

The blank page is the canvas on which a writer paints a story. — Stephanie Ayers

Social Media begins with a story - your story. — Germany Kent

Not everyone is meant to be a writer," Shyla said. "I do believe, however, that everyone has a story within them to be written. — Barbara Casey

You are not the writer. You are the story being told from The Writer. — Richard Wisniewski

The only thing I know anything about are my own fantasies and anxieties. I don't trust my eyes. I consider myself to be a short-story writer. — Duane Michals

You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, 'This is my story! Now tell it or I will never leave you alone! — Christy Hall

No one will ever write a horror novel as scary as reading about my symptoms on WebMD. — John Raptor

You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling. — Norman Mailer

I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events. — Sara Sheridan

Forget how long the path to finishing your story. Address only what you have to write today. — Martha Alderson

The story is the story is the story. — Heather O'Brien

Eroticism bubbles beneath the surface of every vampire story, but Anne Rice is a writer to make the pot boil. — Janet Maslin

I cannot find the perfect person, but I refuse to live my life living a tragic love story based on just sex, and selfish act. — Roxy Writer

Your first obligation as a writer is to tell the truth and to tell a good story. — Lena Waithe

I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward. — Sara Zarr

Studios, to cut through the clutter, want recognisable titles. But that does not excuse you, as a writer, from having an original story. — Roberto Orci

As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told. — Rita Webb

Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it. — Sara Sheridan

I have never, ever, not once, met a writer who said he or she would never read a mystery or a story set in some imagined future. — Russell Smith

The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art. — Naguib Mahfouz

Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers. — M. Kirin

It can be said that one slip of point of view by a writer can hurt a story badly, and several slips can be fatal.' Stein on Writing — Sol Stein

Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived. — George Saunders

I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published. — Lynn Abbey