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

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. — Tom T. Hall

What makes my work my own is where I'm writing from. And I feel like I have a million stories to write about Chicago. — Joe Meno

Growing up, I used to climb out my window onto the roof and look up at the stars. There, in the quiet, I would write stories inside my head. — Christy Hall

I feel incredibly fortunate to have had the level of success I've had. I was just writing stories for my own sons. — Rick Riordan

I started writing stories in my spare time. — Ken Follett

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

The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth. — Criss Jami

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. — Maya Angelou

I am content when writing short stories. — Sarah Mazucci

In writing Simon's stories, I have written myself out of my own life. — K.J. Charles

It's extremely important for women to be writing their own stories and giving them to people to really be emotionally impacted by — Rosario Dawson

I can write my own stories and I can write myself in. — Octavia Butler

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

So little of what anything means comes through words. — Andre Alexis

In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is — Nancy Kress

Stories do not change, only the lives they live in do. — Cameron Conaway

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

You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing. — Alice Munro

Learning is essential for living the life you love. — A.D. Posey

I edit my own stories to death. They eventually run and hide from me. — Jeanne Voelker

Every day's to-do list.
1.) Listen
2.) Trust
3.) Do — A.D. Posey

It might be more difficult because you haven't got a book or a prop, but for the most part I like to write unpaid ... initially and my own stories. — Peter Morgan

I've always loved books. I was an avid reader, with any number of my own stories rolling around in my head. Writing them down seemed a logical step. — Kat Martin

I will continue to write moral stories in rhymed couplets. But I should be thrice a fool if I did it for aught but my own entertainment. — W. Somerset Maugham

I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me. — James Lasdun

No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories. — Alice Walker

Names that tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often proceeds the selection of a name — Claude C. Hopkins

The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done. — Flannery O'Connor

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message. — Stephen King

Listen to what speaks to your heart. — A.D. Posey

The written word is greatest sacred documentation. — 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

Even if only one person's respect for animals increases, then writing Talon would have been worthwhile. — Christopher Gerard

Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm. — Ashwin Sanghi

I write my stories for my children, the best fan club a writer could ever have. They keep me writing and make it fun. — Alan W. Harris

A smart person is not one that knows the answers, but one who knows where to find them ... — William Petersen

P.S. It's not schizophrenia, it's creativity, there is a difference. My voices go away after I let them tell their stories. — Ashley Newell

I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a collection. — Deborah Eisenberg

Without writers, stories would not be written,
Without actors, stories could not be brought to life. — Angie-Marie Delsante

Accept nothing. Challenge everything. — A.D. Posey

I love writing stories about regular people dealing with life's biggest questions. — Nick Blaemire

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages. — Ruskin Bond

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

I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories. — Jacqueline Woodson