Writing Your Own Story Quotes
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Writing Your Own Story Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
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
Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.
— Charles Stross
Not knowing stuff - like how your story ends before you start writing - is the seed of a lot of writer's block.
— Dan Alatorre
I am content when writing short stories.
— Sarah Mazucci
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
Writing is an act of discovery in which you peel back the layers of the story as you write it down.
— Matt Forbeck
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
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
Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.
— Tabitha King
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
Accept nothing. Challenge everything.
— A.D. Posey
A first-rate story is easily killed by second-rate design.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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
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
Every painting tells a story.
— A.D. Posey
You are your own journey.
— A.D. Posey
Improvise. Write your own damn story.
— Eric Lange
Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.
— Charlotte Eriksson
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
We write to strengthen our soul and the spirit of other souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Tighten your prose so the story flows.
— Anna Dobritt
I've evolved in my writing to tell a more emotional story - my publisher, Random House, has urged that.
— Alan Furst
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
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
Listen to what speaks to your heart.
— A.D. Posey
writing is an intensely solitary endeavor, but a story isn't truly heard until many hands have held it.
— Elizabeth J. Church
Life is a sacred story.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
