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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
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
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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— Doris Birdwell Hankamer
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
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
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
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
Write because you love it, not because you want to become rich. Your story will be better for it.
— Lana Axe
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
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
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
Listen to what speaks to your heart.
— A.D. Posey
Love your story.
— 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
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
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
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