Story Writing Quotes

I’ve always loved the night, when everyone else is asleep and the world is all mine. It’s quiet and dark—the perfect time for creativity.

Don’t break the rules when you haven’t fully figured them out yet.

Tell a story in lesser and simpler words.

A writer gets to live yet another life every time she creates a new story.

Be a good reader first, if you wish to become a good writer.

Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature.

The good writing ideas don’t have to be about political turmoil, mass killings, capitalism, racism, injustice, etc. Find that one idea that has deep roots in your heart.

Writing a story is like going on a date—you will spoil it if you aren't living in the moment.

Your life should reflect your heart.

We write to share the deepest heart-talk of our souls.

The story we write today will support the next generation.

We should all live as though someone is writing a book about us.

An author is like an incompetent bricklayer - doesn't use mortar and keeps rearranging the bricks until someone tells him to stop.

For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.

Sometimes, we think faster than what we write.

There is just too much cruelty, selfishness and corruption in the world not to want to crush the poisonous will of those who cause it by writing about it as powerfully as I can.

Cheekbones that cut like ice and eyes like liquid scotch. Loren Hale is an alcoholic beverage and he doesn't even know it.

Only write a story that only you can write.

Life is a sea of vibrant color. Jump in.

Every word Martone sets down, finally, a choice that limits the universe, their trail across the page a fossil record of some life's life-story.

Honestly, I don’t know what I would recommend from this story. Perhaps it is this: if you have the choice to laugh or do nothing, you might as well laugh.

Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time.

Just knowing that you are there and you would be thinking about me while I am thinking about you makes my heart feel serene and contented.

The flower doth not worry, and the tree doth not waver.