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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
The whispers of a story is the beginning of every writer's journey.
— Jen Golembiewski
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.
— Salman Rushdie
In the country of the story the writer is king.
— Shirley Jackson
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 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
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
