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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

Writing is hard work. Attempting to write a decent story is friggin exhausting! — Veronica Purcell

The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry. — Sean O Faolain

If I knew a story page by page before I started writing it, I just wouldn't do it. The process of discovery is really important for my own enjoyment. — Steve Toltz

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

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth. — Gloria Swanson

Whether we like it or not, life has a lot of drama and pain. But God is writing a great story. Are we going to let Him? Are we going to trust Him? — Beth Moore

When you write, you are telling a story ... to yourself. When you revise, you are telling a story to yourself ... over and over again. — Kai Strand

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

All around us is a nothing that stretches on for infinity. We humans can barely comprehend that. If we comprehend it we are rarely pleased. — F.K. Preston

Her words dance on the page. — A.D. Posey

I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck. — Robert Sheckley

Don't let the poison of the past spoil a fruitful future. — A.D. Posey

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

Have a short story feature two situations, and then let them solve each other. — Gene Wolfe

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

The gift of knowledge is empowering, but the gift of wisdom is life-changing. — A.D. Posey

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

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

A film that is a true work of art transcends theatre and heartwarmingly changes lives. — A.D. Posey

Write truthfully, write from the heart, and your words will live. — 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

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

Surround yourself with those conducive to you being your highest self. — A.D. Posey

If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's. — Chris Brogan

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

As long as it comes from the heart, in the end, it will be good. — A.D. Posey

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

Behind every drama is a good story ... behind every tear is the person who wrote it. — Faye Hall

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

The first story I can remember writing, that I truly set down on paper, was a Christmas story that I wrote when I was ten years old. — Greg Rucka

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

I'm sure it's like you writing a story. If you don't care, how can the reader? — Cecelia Ahern

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

The flower doth not worry, and the tree doth not waver. — A.D. Posey

Cry while writing it, and readers will cry while reading it. — A.D. Posey

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

The more of those little light bulbs that can turn on the better. Eventually you'll have enough to light up a movie screen. — 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

Writing is a lonely act. When two writers come together to write a horror story it can be crazy. You can't step on a mine and hope it doesn't explode. — Ben Oliveira

Try writing an entire story with only a thousand words at your disposal. It's a terrific lesson in economy and precession. — Darynda Jones

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

Writing a nonfiction story is like cracking a safe. It seems impossible at the beginning, but once you're in, you're in. — Rich Cohen

I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the story, the important stuff. — David Chase

A quote is a story, suspended in a sentence and treasured through time. — Ryan Lilly

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

Writing a story is like getting to share a piece of every daydream you've ever had. — Giuseppe Bianco