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The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry.
— Sean O Faolain
Talent and work ethic are nothing without belief.
— A.D. Posey
The story is always better than your ability to write it.
— Robin McKinley
Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while intending to write another. His humblest moment is when he compares the two
— Hugh B. Brown
Uncertainty is as good a way as any to kill a story.
— Sidney Zion
But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.
— Umberto Eco
Look upon the world with wonder.
— A.D. Posey
I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
— Tom Clancy
Character development is vital when writing a strong story. Weak characters make for weak stories.
— Beem Weeks
The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story
— Brandt Legg
To strive in life; we must either read or write a story.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Get your story written, you always have the second and third draft to fix things like tense, 1st vs 3rd person, the exact right word, etc.
— Andromeda Edison
When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do do, and often do do, much much better.
— Coco J. Ginger
I am content when writing short stories.
— Sarah Mazucci
When I started writing 'Luck in the Shadows,' I just wanted to create an adventure story.
— Lynn Flewelling
Not every story started off big enough to notice.
— Tom Clancy
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
History is about the untold story, and writing historical fiction is a wonderful way to present the past in a compelling and entertaining way.
— Paul W. Feenstra
I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story.
— Isabel Allende
I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.
— Doris Lessing
Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings.
— Nancy Kress
I make books because I love them as objects; because I want to put the pictures and the words together, because I want to tell a story.
— Audrey Niffenegger
I already knew the next story that I was going to rewrite from the beginning. Mine.
— Indu Muralidharan
Life is short. Write naked.
— A.D. Posey
Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.
— Grant Heslov
For my little dog, Pip, who joined our family during the writing ofthis story. Thanks for rescuing me. — Jackie Braun
Anything is bearable as long as you can make a story out of it...
— M. Scott Momaday
In life, be a kid in a candy store.
— A.D. Posey
There are as many ways to discover your story as there are to trip over a dog in the kitchen--and some of them feel about as planned.
— Jeffrey A. Carver
Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como.
— Franz Liszt
A story only wants to be told. Don't stand in its way.
— Aleks Canard
At the end of your story, you get down to the purity of it all. It's like distilling something.
— A.D. Posey
We write by the light of every story we have ever read.
— Richard Peck
She leans into the memory. She stares. She concentrates. What IS it that's she's looking for, trying to get straight at last?
— Vivian Gornick
A book is a living breathing piece of art and you are just the person it chose to channel its story. Be humble.
— Lori Lesko
To me, writing is fun. It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story.
— Stan Lee
I write novellas, short books, whatever. I set out to write a good story not write a dictionary.
— Jason E. Hodges
Whatever claim you use to get attention, the advertisement should tell a story reasonably complete
— Claude C. Hopkins
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
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
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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
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
The story becomes clearer with time.
— A.D. Posey
Always choose love over fear.
— A.D. Posey
A story is like a machine with numerous gears: it should contain no gear that doesn't turn something
— John Gardner
When writing the story of your life, don't let anyone else hold the pen.
— Annisa Widi Astuty
A great story can change the world.
— Stewart Stafford
The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.
— V.S. Pritchett
To tell a story is always to translate the raw material into a specific shape, to select out of the boundless potential facts those that seem salient.
— Rebecca Solnit
Crying cleanses the soul.
— A.D. Posey
Every day's to-do list.1.) Listen
2.) Trust
3.) Do — A.D. Posey
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
Tighten your prose so the story flows.
— Anna Dobritt
You are not the writer. You are the story being told from The Writer.
— Richard Wisniewski
Life is a sacred story.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I've evolved in my writing to tell a more emotional story - my publisher, Random House, has urged that.
— Alan Furst
The story we write today will support the next generation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
This is just the present chapter of my life. How can I give up when God isn't finished writing my story yet?
— Deb Brammer
When we think, we hurt. When we feel, we heal.
— 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
Forget how long the path to finishing your story. Address only what you have to write today.
— Martha Alderson
Style jazzes up your canvas.
— A.D. Posey
As the story grew, it put down roots into the past and threw out unexpected branches .
— J.R.R. Tolkien
When my story stalls on me, I've played my hand too soon.
— T. Jefferson Parker
The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn't very interesting.
— Stephen King
You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling.
— Norman Mailer
When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
I want to lay under the blanket of sky and laugh while the stars wink and we write our story.
— A.D. Posey
Don't look. See.
Don't think.
Feel.
Don't hear.
Listen.
Pay attention
Miracles really do happen every day — A.D. Posey
My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.
— Anita Desai
Laughter lights up the darkness.
— A.D. Posey
I can't sew, but I can spin one helluva yarn.
— A.D. Posey
Setting is the soul of your story...Improve upon it, and it will take your writing to the next level.
— Ruth Ann Ridley
I've tried to write deep and serious. I spent years working to write a story that would make my writing group cry.
— Jim C. Hines
Positive thoughts shape a positive world.
— A.D. Posey