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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

The key to high concept is that fresh twist. Make it a big one. Wow your reader. Force her to gasp when she comes to that part in your story. — Darynda Jones

Stop beating yourself up over all the days you didn't work on your story. Focus on what you can do today.

Sit down, and write. — M. Kirin

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

Well-developed characters will ruin your writing plans every time. You may think you know where you're going with a story, but they have other ideas. — Quinn Anderson

In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others. — Geoff Ryman

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

What monster sleeps in the deep of your story? You need a monster. Without a monster there is no story. — Billy Marshall Stoneking

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth. — Gloria Swanson

Your life is a story. Write the one you want to read. — A.D. Posey

Your life should reflect your heart. — A.D. Posey

I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing. — Julia Leigh

If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

The story is always better than your ability to write it. — Robin McKinley

Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal. — Charles Stross

Where your heart is, there is your love. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Be careful what you say and do around a writer; your words and actions may become material. — A.D. Posey

Write your sacred story. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed. — Larry Niven

Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first! — Anne McCaffrey

You hold in your heart everything you need to know to write anything your story needs written. — Dan Alatorre

Not knowing stuff - like how your story ends before you start writing - is the seed of a lot of writer's block. — Dan Alatorre

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

Nobody wants to be a part of your story. Everybody wants you to elaborate on their fantasies. — Michael Bassey Johnson

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Pour your heart onto the page. — A.D. Posey

If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever. — Jodi Picoult

Make your writing memorable. — A.D. Posey

In the end, you have to make love to your story and see what happens. — A.D. Posey

How many pages will it take to tell your story? — Ashly Lorenzana

At the end of your story, you get down to the purity of it all. It's like distilling something. — A.D. Posey

Take your ego out of your 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

Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia. — Kurt Vonnegut

This is not a story about your disappointment at my silence. The theme of this story is my pain and my attempts to end it. — Don DeLillo

Your life is truly your life ... it belongs to you. It is your story to write with love. Day by day, line by line, write it well — Lance Wubbels

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

You can be the world's greatest hero or its most mild-mannered citizen, but the only person who can write your story ... is you. — Jonathan Kent

Each thing you add to your story is a drop of paint falling into clear water; it spreads through and colors everything. — Lisa Cron

With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character. — Olivia Munn

You pulled one story from your head, and another story popped up in its place, like tissues from a box. — Eileen Pollack

Give all of life's oxygen to the fire that is your soul. — 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

What is your suggestion for someone who wants to start writing? Be a reader. It's the only real way to learn how to tell a story. — Natalie Babbitt

Description is the color in the canvas of your story. — M. Kirin

Don't write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story. — Ethan Canin

In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists. — Jefferson Smith

Novels are just very, very, very long lies. That is to say, you've got to get your story straight! — Blair Thornburgh

Love is the key to everything. Love your life. — A.D. Posey

There is a difference between fresh and weird. You never want to throw your reader out of the story. Keep it fresh but natural. — Darynda Jones

Your current circumstances are part of your redemption story He is writing. — Evinda Lepins

Write because you love it, not because you want to become rich. Your story will be better for it. — Lana Axe

You have to live your story before being able to write your story. — Amy Shearn

You don't deserve my image in your head. You don't deserve my memories in your chest. — Coco J. Ginger

When writing the story of your life, don't let anyone else hold the pen. — Annisa Widi Astuty

Don't ever let anyone else write your story for you. — Nick Carter

Violence can read like poetry. You just have to describe the act as if you're in love with the way your characters bleed. — F.K. Preston

Setting is the soul of your story...Improve upon it, and it will take your writing to the next level. — Ruth Ann Ridley

Surround yourself with those conducive to you being your highest self. — A.D. Posey

If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's. — Chris Brogan

Your best authorial self is always one about to ruin the story. — Chuck Wendig

Write truthfully, write from the heart, and your words will live. — A.D. Posey

Writing a book is like pulling strands out of your soul, one by one, until one day instead of a mess it finally looks like a story. — Ksenia Anske

Improvise. Write your own damn story. — Eric Lange

Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer. — Jean Little

Light your fire. — A.D. Posey

When writing your life story, love writes a masterpiece. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen. — Jack London

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

Try writing an entire story with only a thousand words at your disposal. It's a terrific lesson in economy and precession. — Darynda Jones

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

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

Tighten your prose so the story flows. — Anna Dobritt

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

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

Love your story. — A.D. Posey

You paint the picture of your surroundings. Paint it beautifully. — A.D. Posey

Some days you live in pajamas, and your hair kind-of has that Albert Einstein look. — A.D. Posey

Let go of your story so the Universe can write a new one for you. — Marianne Williamson

The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story! — Ford Madox Ford

Screw the beaten path! Do your thing. Write the best story you can. the rest will fall into place. — Darynda Jones

I am writing graffiti on your body. I am drawing the story of how hard we tried. — Ani DiFranco

Begin to write, your heart will flow with sacred words. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A pen is never worthless. In the right hand, it holds a whole world and all the treasures you could ever want. Now write your story. All of it. — Ian Baucom

Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings. — Nancy Kress

When you write a story, you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story. — Stephen King

You are writing the story of your only life every single minute of every day. — Katherine Center

Forget how long the path to finishing your story. Address only what you have to write today. — Martha Alderson

Your experiences are the foundation for your story; your imagination takes it from there. — J.R. Young

Your only job is creating a life that contains a story worth telling. — Carolyn Parkhurst

Try everything; listen to everyone. Follow no one. You are your own story guru! — Jeff Lyons

Style jazzes up your canvas. — A.D. Posey

Write out of love. Your piece will finish itself. — A.D. Posey

Don't worry about meaning. If a story's any good, it can't help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means. — William Kittredge

You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, 'This is my story! Now tell it or I will never leave you alone! — Christy Hall

Let your story breathe and be what it really is. — A.D. Posey

Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers. — M. Kirin