Writing Stories Quotes

Writing Stories Quote of the day

I don't blame you for writing of me as you have. You had to believe other stories, but then I don't know if any one would believe anything good of me anyway.

When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

We are writing stories with light and darkness, motion and colors. It is a language with its own vocabulary and unlimited possibilities for expressing our inner thoughts and feelings.

We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.

I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.

Write the story that only you can write.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.

I write a story in my head. I see the story like a movie.

The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story.

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.

If I were to write the story of my life, I would shock the world.

I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

Stories are living and dynamic. Stories exist to be exchanged. They are the currency of Human Growth.

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.

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

The story you are afraid to write is usually the one you are meant to tell.

You have to live your story before being able to write your story.

Writing stories has given me the power to change things I could not change as a child. I can make boys into doctors. I can make fathers stop drinking. I can make mothers stay.

But then, that's the beauty of writing stories-each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there's no feeling like it.

I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

The story is not in the plot but in the telling.

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

There is no story unless you've written it.

Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.

I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.

I consider a story merely as a frame on which to stretch my materials.

I'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my story.

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.

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

If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories.

I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own. If you don't like what somebody says, say what it is you don't like.

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.

Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.

I'm used to writing short stories, which is primarily what I like to read.

In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.

I'm writing, I'm using language, I'm using that language to tell stories and even more so to get ideas across. And I just love that, and I've always loved that.

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

Don't ever tell a story like it wasn't about you.