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I think, as writers, our first responsibility is to writing an honest story. Tell the story you want to tell, without pulling your punches. — Lynn Coady

What if God, in giving us life, invites us to collaborate in writing the story of our lives? — Adam Hamilton

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

We write to share the deepest heart-talk of our souls. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

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

Question marks are shaped like hooks for a reason: they will hook the reader and drag them deeper into the story — Chuck Wendig

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

I knew little about short story writing then so it was rough going, but I did find the experience very memorable. — Haruki Murakami

This story was a story of our time. And a writer's attempts not to fathom his time amount but to sounding his mind in it. — Louis Zukofsky

Our willingness to write truthfully brings the story to life. — Alan Watt

The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood. — Malcolm Cowley

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

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

First-person narrators can't die, so as long as we keep telling the story of our own lives we're safe. Ha bloody fucking Ha. — Pat Barker

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

I am content when writing short stories. — Sarah Mazucci

What draws us into a story and keeps us there is the firing of our dopamine neurons, signaling that intriguing information is on the way. — Lisa Cron

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

Writers are like actors too. For every story we create, we must get under the skin of the characters and role play with our writing. — Jyoti Arora

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

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

I'm just writing a story that I want to read. — Jean M. Auel

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

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

I keep the description basic as it allows you to mould the story around your life. — Airam

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

Africa's story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story. — Paul Kagame

I want to lay under the blanket of sky and laugh while the stars wink and we write our story. — A.D. Posey

All the stories give unique inspiration. — Lailah Gifty Akita

For my little dog, Pip, who joined our family during the writing of
this story. Thanks for rescuing me. — Jackie Braun

All around us God is writing a grand story of His love and He invites us to let our lives fill the pages. — Kristen McNulty

I started drawing at a very young age. Writing a story wasn't satisfying, but to actually draw our own world - it's like controlling your own dreams. — Daniel Clowes

Telling our personal story reveals the shape shifting landscape of our mind. — Kilroy J. Oldster

The ordinary stories of our ordinary lives have extraordinary gifts coded within them ... — Christina Baldwin

At some point we must stop editing everyone else' story and start writing our own. — John E. Carson

We spent 10 years writing our first fiction story and truly hope people like it. — Tony D'Urso

God is writing His story on the pages of our lives. — Rick Anderson

God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices. — Peter Kreeft

We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story. — Christina Baldwin

Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We are each the protagonist of our life story. — E.L. Tenenbaum

writing is an intensely solitary endeavor, but a story isn't truly heard until many hands have held it. — Elizabeth J. Church

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

Be expectant ... God is not finished writing your story! — Joy Marino

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

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

I keep dying and hoping you notice me. But you're too busy living. — F.K. Preston

No individual element in your story, including the hero, will work unless you first create it and define it in relation to all the other elements. — John Truby

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

I find that writing is the silver lining of life, allowing me to transform vexing experiences into fresh story ideas...after much vexed venting. — Laura Quinn

Only half the story is true. The rest is necessary. — John Yau

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

A first-rate story is easily killed by second-rate design. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The characters tell their story - I am merely the tool used to record it — Marti Melville

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

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

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

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

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

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