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I'm trying to write stories that are interesting and enjoyable. — Arthur Bradford

You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves. — Ray Bradbury

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

When you are falling short in vocabulary to explain the emotion in your story.Than you are writing the right story — Tushar Upreti

All stories are love stories. — Robert McLiam Wilson

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

There's power in stories, though. That's all history is: the best tales. The ones that last. Might as well be mine. — Varric Tethras

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

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

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

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

I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author. — Paul Auster

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

At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound. — Dennis Covington

Be a burst of joy. — A.D. Posey

History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not. — Sara Sheridan

Originality is not writing the story that has never been told, but writing the stories only you can tell. — M. Kirin

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 write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories. — Christine Feehan

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters. — Kathy Reichs

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

When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending. — Brene Brown

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

I am content when writing short stories. — Sarah Mazucci

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

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

I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven. — Stephen King

Stories are living and dynamic. Stories exist to be exchanged. They are the currency of Human Growth. — Jean Houston

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

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

Stories are invented as you go along... — Orson Scott Card

A photographer is like a writer ... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story. — Habib Umar Bin Hafiz

You are your own journey. — A.D. Posey

The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists. — V.S. Pritchett

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

If you don't think screenwriting is a work of art, good luck in your life without a soul. — A.D. Posey

All that sweetness makes me feel weird. My sister was never the loving type. — Mary Papas

Always choose love over fear. — A.D. Posey

That woman must have been a husky in a previous life. — Mary Papas

When you're writing, your mind has a place where the stories happen. With one word, you can get the idea of where you are. — Luis Negron

When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid — Horton Foote

I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13. — Kevin Powers

I started writing stories as a child. — Danielle Steel

I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it. — Flannery O'Connor

Improvise. Write your own damn story. — Eric Lange

Reporters are faced with the daily choice of painstakingly researching stories or writing whatever people tell them. Both approaches pay the same. — Scott Adams

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life. — Ray Bradbury

When I was painting, I was painting stories I was telling myself. When I look back at it, moving to writing was a very natural progression for me. — Janet Evanovich

I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion. — Kate Morton

Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up. — Stephen King

Our lives follow the stories we tell ourselves. — Gina Greenlee

No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce. — H.P. Lovecraft

When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them. — Etgar Keret

Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels. — Ben Lerner

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

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. — Leo Tolstoy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The written word is greatest sacred documentation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

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

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

When people stop writing down their stories, the soul of the world is lost. — Ann Aguirre

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

Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories. — James Patterson

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create. — Patricia Cornwell

I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster. — Mohsin Hamid

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

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

Literature, the act of writing, affirms life, however dark the story it tells. — Marty Rubin

I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them. — Neil Jackson

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

The hardest part of ghost writing other people's stories is capturing their voices so that it isn't you talking, it's them. — Michael Robotham

You're with you 24/7; you must love you the most. — A.D. Posey

I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier. — Karen Russell

Crying cleanses the soul. — A.D. Posey

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

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

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

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

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

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