Stories Writing Quotes
Stories Writing Quote of the day
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.
All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.
I've been writing songs since I was like six or seven. I've been writing poetry and short stories and stuff, but my first serious, serious song, I wrote when I was fourteen.
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.
There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living cook books and detective stories.
Some of the best things that have happened in my stories have happened seemingly of their own accord. The writer becomes a listener, just writing things down as they come.
You can be writing every day. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.
These are rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what's taking place in the story.
The more of those little light bulbs that can turn on the better. Eventually you’ll have enough to light up a movie screen.
We have story-makers and we have writers apparently most of the today's writing falls into the first category.
We can help the next generation, with the stories we write today.
If you don't know where to start, remember that every single thing that happened to you is yours and you get to tell it.
From an author's point of view, the most painful and dangerous weapon ain't no gun or blade, but a piece of paper with the word rejected on it.
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.
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A good story is [a] kind of irritant. You read it, then you cannot stop thinking about it. Eventually, your mind and heart encyst about it, and what occurs is a pearl of the soul.
The best endings resonate because they echo a word, phrase, or image from earlier in the story, and the reader is prompted to think back to that reference and speculate on a deeper meaning.
Maybe we guzzle forty stories with every breath we draw and they soak into us and flavor and thicken and spice the wild stew we are.
Follow your gut, Storyteller, it will lead to your happy ending.
Stories not only give us a much needed practice on figuring out what makes people tick, they give us insight into how we tick.
If a story is no good, being based on Hamlet won't save it.
Even if you're in the thick of revising another work, write something new. Something small. It's important to keep telling yourself stories.
Everyone has a story inside them. Some are bedtimes stories, some thrill and others scare and horrify their readers. Find out what your story is and share it with the world.
Stories do not change, only the lives they live in do.
People ask me all the time, "Where do your ideas come from?" So, to clear up this question...I keep my ideas inside the mind of a tiny man who is tied up in my closet!