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Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word. — Don Roff

Well-developed characters will ruin your writing plans every time. You may think you know where you're going with a story, but they have other ideas. — Quinn Anderson

Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story ... Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91) — L.M. Montgomery

The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it. — Ernest Hemingway,

We are living out the drama of a pathetic story whose pages are smeared with our own handwriting. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first! — Anne McCaffrey

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

Writing a story is like giving birth with the only difference that you enjoy the process. — Self

The Adventure called and I followed with my thumb like a character being written by an intractable author. Which, of course, I was. — Sol Luckman

A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration. — Isabel Allende

There is nothing quite like this novel with its rage and ragings, its discontent and angry restlessness. Wuthering Heights is a virgin's story. — Elizabeth Hardwick

When we've decided to tell the truth in a story, we should tell good, strong versions of it, proper versions that kids can do something with. — Celine Kiernan

It's hard to write about a love story with a broken heart. — Kim Gordon

Each piece of writing I undertake, whether a story, novel, play, or poem, begins with an image. — Norman Lock

Come with me to the mountains. Every stone there tells a story. — Avijeet Das

If you are having trouble with a story, it may not be an issue with the quality of the writing - there may just be too much of it. — Michael Winter

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot. — William Shatner

If you tell one lie, you have to tell more to keep the first lie alive. A story is a good lie with an exit strategy. — Kelvin Kwa

You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits. — Charles Yu

I you tell a lie, you have to tell ten more to keep it alive. A story is just a lie with a good exit strategy. — Kelvin Kwa

When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going. — James Frey

In her room at the prow of the house
Where light breaks,
and the windows are tossed with linden,
My daughter is writing a story.. — Wesley Banks

It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life. — Helen Keller

Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump. — Etgar Keret

Because I don't work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I'm on this rock, now I'm on this rock, now I'm on this rock. — Ann Beattie

Come with me to the mountains. Every rock there tells a story. — Avijeet Das

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

A story is like a machine with numerous gears: it should contain no gear that doesn't turn something — John Gardner

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 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

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