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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
The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry.
— Sean O Faolain
Only write a story that only you can write.
— Alysha Speer
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
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
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
Throughout our lives, after all, we look for a story of our origins, to tell us why we were born and why we have lived.
— Umberto Eco
Her words dance on the page.
— A.D. Posey
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
When you're writing for a show, you're writing part of the script. You have to tell the story.
— Adam Schlesinger
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
Not knowing stuff - like how your story ends before you start writing - is the seed of a lot of writer's block.
— Dan Alatorre
You don't need to know how a story ends, but how it begins. Start writing ... and the rest of the story will write itself.
— Jason W. Blair
A great story can change the world.
— Stewart Stafford
A story is like a machine with numerous gears: it should contain no gear that doesn't turn something
— John Gardner
Storytelling keeps life going.
— A.D. Posey
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 like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.
— Alistair MacLeod
Always choose love over fear.
— A.D. Posey
I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing.
— P.G. Wodehouse
You are your own journey.
— A.D. Posey
Light your fire.
— A.D. Posey
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
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A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.
— David Sedaris
I say fuck the old advice 'show, don't tell.' It's called story TELLING for a reason, and I'll stick to it!
— Ashly Lorenzana
A story is about a single moment in a character's life when a definitive choice is made, after which nothing is the same.
— John L'Heureux
For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story.
— Rebecca Skloot
If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule - a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
— John Steinbeck
There's a story you write, there's a story you shoot and there's a story you cut.
— Paul T. Scheuring
Just surrender to the story.
— A.D. Posey
Writing a book is like pulling strands out of your soul, one by one, until one day instead of a mess it finally looks like a story.
— Ksenia Anske
When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point.
— Lauren DeStefano
A good story is one liked. A great story is one that challenges thought, defiant and gets mouths talking.
— Veronica Purcell
Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.
— Jean Little
A great story is impossible to forget.
— A.D. Posey
The story becomes clearer with time.
— A.D. Posey
The Christmas story is penmanship of the most brilliant sort, where God crafted a beginning that would never be subject to an ending.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
It's a principle of mine to come into the story as late as possible, and to tell it as fast as you can.
— John Le Carre
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
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
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
I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.
— Naomi Shihab Nye
Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.
— Tabitha King
I'm just writing a story that I want to read.
— Jean M. Auel
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
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
Life is a sacred story.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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
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
Every painting tells a story.
— 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
Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
— Jack London
If you don't think screenwriting is a work of art, good luck in your life without a soul.
— A.D. Posey
You're with you 24/7; you must love you the most.
— A.D. Posey
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
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
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
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 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
Crying cleanses the soul.
— A.D. Posey
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
