Top 1200 Writing Stories Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I'm more interested in moving toward writing stories - thinking about the graphic novel form, and just something more long-form. I did a lot of literary translation in college. Translation is an art. But for sure writing has always been a part of how I think through my ideas.

For me, writing stories is one way of feeling connected to the universe and God.

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

By the sheer act of writing, we are trying to place value on the stories that we're invested in.

I'll often dream about characters before I start writing their stories.

In many ways, I've been writing personal stories all my life.

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

I've been writing stories, in one form or another, since I was a kid.

I love stories. I loved stories when I was a kid. My mom read stories to me all the time.

When you're writing, your mind has a place where the stories happen. With one word, you can get the idea of where you are.

There are stories you build and there are stories you construct; then there are the stories that you hack out of rock removing all the things that are not the story.

I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it.

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

I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with question [why I'm write these stories]. It's not a question that you would ask a guy that writes detective stories or the guy that writes mystery stories, or westerns, or whatever. But it is asked of the writer of horror stories because it seems that there is something nasty about our love for horror stories, or boogies, ghosts and goblins, demons and devils.

It wasn't a case of me sitting down and thinking, right then, what shall I do with my life? Airline pilot? Plumber? Guitar manufacturer? Writer .... yeah, writer. I've always loved writing, from a very early age--I guess I was writing my first stories when I was still in single digits. It progressed, and the love of writing grew in my mind and is still growing. Doing it full-time, there are different stresses and tensions, and the business side of it comes to the fore sometimes. But I still love it, and I'm always thankful that I can do what I do and make a living from it.

All they get around here is stories. Stories don't make you bleed. Stories don't make you go hungry, don't give you sore feet. When you're young smelling of pigshit and convinced there ain't a weapon in all the damn world that's going to hurt you, all stories do is make you want to be part of them.

I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.

I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the writing.

I always begin my stories as experiments - on large yellow tablets - a mixture of writing and sketching.

People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.

At the time I was first writing the stories/essays that appear in Oedipus Wrecked, I was still under the impression that people would be delighted to see their name in print. I overlooked the fact that I was writing about intimate matters, and people are a bit touchy about airing their private lives in such a public fashion. Especially when it's done without their consent.

I'm more interested in writing about the personal stories of people. Sometimes I don't agree with them.

I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.

I would spend my time telling stories or writing them.

I've been writing short stories since I was a little girl.

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

I love to tell stories. I love to tell stories the way I tell them, not the way anybody else tells them. I am all the time writing a novel.

There are a lot of college writing textbooks that will include essays and short stories, and after reading the story or essay, there will be questions such as "Have YOU Had any experience with a pedophile in YOUR family?" or "When was the last time you saw YOUR mother drunk?" and they're just really good at prompting stories. You answer the question, and sometimes that can spring into a story.

Stories matter. Stories are how we make sense of the world, which doesn't mean that those stories can't be stupid and simplistic and full of lies. Stories can exaggerate and offend and they always, always matter.

I was writing short stories aged seven or eight. I had a vivid, overactive imagination.

In a way, I started 'Goon Squad' not even realizing I was writing a book. I thought I was just writing a few stories to stall before starting this other book that I wanted to write - or thought I wanted to write: I still haven't written it.

I keep writing stories that I might want to bring to life one day.

I'm afraid there are no magical tips. There is no secret. Writing is all about telling stories as well as you can.

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

I went to classes on writing for film and theatre as well as short stories at Stanford.

I continue to enjoy looking for stories, and trying to do the best job I can reporting and writing them.

Broken stories can be healed. Diseased stories can be replaced by healthy ones. We are free to change the stories by which we live.

I try to do stories that make a difference -- stories that affect the way people think, stories that people need to hear -- and usually what drives me is to do stories about people who have no voice, people who have no political power, people who are overlooked by society.

We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stories are basically human stories with sports as a backdrop.

I try to do stories that make a difference - stories that affect the way people think, stories that people need to hear - and usually what drives me is to do stories about people who have no voice, people who have no political power, people who are overlooked by society.

There are tons of stories out there. I read a lot of scripts on a weekly basis. I'm looking for stories to tell and stories that I hope will be interesting to an audience.

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

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

I don't feel like writing any more ghost stories.

I got into writing short stories and blogs while on the road.

I probably won't direct the stories I am writing but will star in them.

It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge.

Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits.

I don't know if I ever would have developed into a good actor, but that got completely scotched when I lost my vocal cord at 14 in the operation. But writing always - writing plays, writing, writing, writing, that was what I wanted to do.

I kept writing short stories and sending out my manuscript, and it kept coming back like a bad penny. It was rejected all over town, quite often in very complimentary terms, but rejected nonetheless. Agents would return it saying that they loved it but didn't think they could sell it, or they would ask if I could change the collection into linked stories.

I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.

I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.

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

I think you find stories with fresh perspectives, and there can be a danger in the opposite way when you start getting too cynical and things just don't start seeming like stories, and things don't seem exciting anymore. It's like, 'Yep, this is my fourth caucus, and I know everybody and know everything and I am writing just to impress my friends.'

Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.

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

I read a lot of ghost stories because I was writing a ghost story. I didn't think at all I was writing a horror or a thriller or whatever because it is about a ghost, whereas a horror film can be about aliens or things that rise out of the marsh that have no human shape.

It would appear that I just love writing many different stories.

By Cunning & Craft is a masterpiece of writing about writing. If, like Scheherazade, you had to spin out a story under threat of death, this is the how-to book to read. It's filled with thoughtful, nuanced advice from a teacher/writer who actually writes, and writes beautifully and with great humor. The list of rejected stories is worth the price of the whole book.