Writing Stories Quotes

I'm a professional. So before I published any novels, I'd always been writing stories.

Writers end up writing stories-or rather, stories' shadows-and they're grateful if they can, but it is not enough. Nothing the writer can do is ever enough

Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.

I started writing stories in my spare time.

Well, we're meant to be writing stories today.

I love writing stories about regular people dealing with life's biggest questions.

I feel incredibly fortunate to have had the level of success I've had. I was just writing stories for my own sons.

I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.

There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.

I've been writing short stories for twenty years now, on and off ever since I was in the creative writing program at San Francisco State University.

I enjoy so many different art forms; I don't just want to focus on acting. I love music. I love writing stories. And you need solitude to figure out your next step.

The democratic race is really boring when the media is basically writing stories and spending money to ask questions in a poll about somebody who is not even a declared candidate.

I started writing stories as a child.

I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.

The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality.

Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition.

You don't want people to think you're just writing stories for children about a pig in a tutu.

I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.

I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.

I like writing stories. That's what I like to do. That's the way I see it, but with every song I get sucked into feeling something.

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.

I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.

I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book.

It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.

One of the things you learn very early in writing for television, especially, is that compressing the story is always a good idea.

The writing itself is the thing that generates stories for me.

To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.

Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.

Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.

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

Enter the story as late as you can.

I could write stories just as rotten.

I've been in a long and happy relationship for 22 years and it's never inspired me to write anything. It's too good - nothing to say. Problems, conflict, that's what makes for good stories.

Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.

I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.

Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.

The story sometimes writes you into a corner.

Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.

I've been taking longer to write stories lately.

For me, writing Bridget's [Jones] stories is an instinctive, organic thing, which tends to happen more by accident than design.

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.

I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.

Readers re-create any story to suit their own needs. They re-clothe the story in their own shirts. Put simply: just as we write the story we need to write, they read the story they need to read.

When I start writing, my unconscious, my conflicts, my thoughts all start to come up. So for me, writing is an exploration. I never know how my stories will end.

I'm just writing a story that I want to read.

Writing a story, you understand, is not done by consensus. But we do learn from each other, and we remind ourselves how important this work we're doing is.

The right story needs the right telling.

It's a principle of mine to come into the story as late as possible, and to tell it as fast as you can.

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.