Story Writing Quotes
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Story Writing Quotes & Sayings
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I never know, when I start writing a story, what's going to happen, or how it will all get sorted out.
— Jacqueline Woodson
When you do enough research, the story almost writes itself. Lines of development spring loose and you'll have choices galore.
— Robert McKee
The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry.
— Sean O Faolain
When you are writing a novel, you aren't making it up. The story is already there. You just have to find it.
— Thomas Harris
Only write a story that only you can write.
— Alysha Speer
When you are falling short in vocabulary to explain the emotion in your story.Than you are writing the right story
— Tushar Upreti
The story is always better than your ability to write it.
— Robin McKinley
I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers.
— Lisa Scottoline
Uncertainty is as good a way as any to kill a story.
— Sidney Zion
Question marks are shaped like hooks for a reason: they will hook the reader and drag them deeper into the story
— Chuck Wendig
Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.
— Kurt Vonnegut
You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else belongs behind a closed door.
— Michael Koryta
I knew little about short story writing then so it was rough going, but I did find the experience very memorable.
— Haruki Murakami
I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.
— Robert Sheckley
The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood.
— Malcolm Cowley
The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is a story waiting to be read.
— Shannon L. Alder
I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.
— Karen Blixen
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
When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do do, and often do do, much much better.
— Coco J. Ginger
I am content when writing short stories.
— Sarah Mazucci
I know have lived, so many times, that the only thing I have left to remember is my writing, cause every single moment in life it's already written.
— Piroska Rodriguez
When writing the story of your life, don't let anyone else hold the pen.
— Annisa Widi Astuty
Storytelling keeps life going.
— A.D. Posey
Basically, writers write because they have something to say...Everyone has a story in them, writers merely decide to share it with the world...
— Virginia Alison
The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.
— Terry Pratchett
A great story can change the world.
— Stewart Stafford
You are your own journey.
— A.D. Posey
A true storyteller is really good at writing himself into a corner and then finding a way out of that corner
— Michael Chabon
For me, the main inspiration to write a story or novel is the voice of its central character, or the narrative voice of the story itself.
— Scott Bradfield
Try writing an entire story with only a thousand words at your disposal. It's a terrific lesson in economy and precession.
— Darynda Jones
A photographer is like a writer ... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.
— Habib Umar Bin Hafiz
If you don't think screenwriting is a work of art, good luck in your life without a soul.
— A.D. Posey
I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and all that stuff.
— Jason Bateman
I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page or two.
— James Rollins
If you're going to have a complicated story, you must work to a map; otherwise you can never make a map of it afterwards.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
— Jack London
You're with you 24/7; you must love you the most.
— A.D. Posey
The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.
— V.S. Pritchett
When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.
— Howard Gordon
One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.
— Carlos Fuentes
Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.
— Anne McCaffrey
We write to strengthen our soul and the spirit of other souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Tighten your prose so the story flows.
— Anna Dobritt
I'm actually writing a short story about a photographer who went completely insane trying to take a close up photo of the horizon.
— Steven Wright
You are not the writer. You are the story being told from The Writer.
— Richard Wisniewski
Life is a sacred story.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Writing in the first person helps to make clear the author's role in constructing rather than discovering the story/knowledge.
— Gayle Letherby
writing is an intensely solitary endeavor, but a story isn't truly heard until many hands have held it.
— Elizabeth J. Church
Listen to what speaks to your heart.
— A.D. Posey
I've evolved in my writing to tell a more emotional story - my publisher, Random House, has urged that.
— Alan Furst
My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable ... so the listener becomes really invested in the story or the song.
— Kristian Bush
Every painting tells a story.
— A.D. Posey
Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.
— Charlotte Eriksson
Every word Martone sets down, finally, a choice that limits the universe, their trail across the page a fossil record of some life's life-story.
— Michael Martone
Every day's to-do list.1.) Listen
2.) Trust
3.) Do — A.D. Posey
Learning is essential for living the life you love.
— A.D. Posey
Writing a story is like getting to share a piece of every daydream you've ever had.
— Giuseppe Bianco
I love the process of creating a story that will resonate in my readers lives ~ either inspiring them, educating them, or entertaining them.
— Kathryn Albright
I'm just writing a story that I want to read.
— Jean M. Auel
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
The blank page is the canvas on which a writer paints a story.
— Stephanie Ayers
Crying cleanses the soul.
— A.D. Posey
The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
— Beverly Cleary
Writing is an act of discovery in which you peel back the layers of the story as you write it down.
— Matt Forbeck
I used to love to make things - you couldn't drag me away for dinner because I was always writing a story or something.
— Fiona Apple
A first-rate story is easily killed by second-rate design.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Accept nothing. Challenge everything.
— A.D. Posey
