Writing Stories Quotes

You are writing the story of your only life every single minute of every day.

I write all day and outline stories, a sports mythological universe.

I don't call magazines and let them know about things so they can write stories.

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

You have to want to write and like to write. Sit down at that desk or machine or laptop and tell stories.

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.

You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else belongs behind a closed door.

I have lots of objects. Every object has a story, which makes me think I should write a story about every object.

The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when a story connects with a reader and they take the time to tell me about it.

What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web.

I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.

Each piece of writing I undertake, whether a story, novel, play, or poem, begins with an image.

I want to write stories that don't help you escape life, but embrace life.

I write in Arabic and prefer writing my stories by hand. I need a cup of tea or coffee when I write. When I was in Syria, I was addicted to tea, but now I'm addicted to Starbucks.

I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.

I had been writing since I was pretty small, and I've always been telling these stories about doors and finding other worlds within our own.

Writing a novel is always complicated, it's not like you snap your fingers and go, 'Ah, I know what I'll write'. For me, a lot of the time, I have to write and as I write, I learn about the story.

I write short stories, and I wrote a play.

I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart.

I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.

We write an awful lot of stories about Donald Trump.

I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.

When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.

When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.

When I write a story, it's not like I'm thinking about what I'm doing

We are the only ones who can tell our stories because we are the only ones who have lived them.

I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.

If you haven't got an idea, write a story anyway.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Tell a story in lesser and simpler words.

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

Dreams are good at playing with your memory. They love leaving no trace behind and hate to show up once again in the morning.

Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Else they are likely going to move on to another book.

A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books.

If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don’t suffocate your heart.

As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words.

Don’t interrupt when your characters take a flight of their own.

Cliches are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases.

If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be.

If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout the story.

Experience is the catalyst for all great stories.

Come with me to the mountains. Every rock there tells a story.

Everyone has a story to tell. Everyone is a writer, some are written in the books and some are confined to hearts.

Even if you're in the thick of revising another work, write something new. Something small. It's important to keep telling yourself stories.

Sooner or later every writer evolves his own definition of a story.Mine is: A reflection of life plus beginning and end (life seems not to have either) and a meaning.