Top 1200 Writing Stories Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork.

Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.

I think that's a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go? I think you have something really great with all those stories waiting to be told, but I just don't know how it shapes up exactly. I don't think there are going to be a lot of newspaper reporters sitting around not writing.

The hardest part of ghost writing other people's stories is capturing their voices so that it isn't you talking, it's them.

Life is a story. You and I are telling stories; they may suck, but we are telling stories. And we tell stories about the things that we want. So you go through your bank account, and those are things you have told stories about.

I've always called myself a journalist who happens to draw. If I wasn't drawing cartoons, I'd be writing stories.

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing - none of that is writing. Writing is writing. Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

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

I know now why I stopped writing short stories. It was at the point when I recognised how difficult they were.

Most applicants to creative writing programs submit stories about the angst of their suburban childhoods.

As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing for instance. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks. Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences. So, if we've shared many experiences, then it probably has something to do with power or politics, and if we unify and act together, then we can make a change.

For myself, I feel more natural writing stories or novels than writing plays. I feel more like myself, like I can express myself better, and like I have a greater clarity about what I want to do.

I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier.

I have always loved writing and I used to pen down my thoughts, little stories and poems growing up.

We need to write because so many of our stories are not being heard. Where could they be heard in this era of fear and media monopolies? Writing allows us to transform what has happened to us and to fight back against what's hurting us. While not everyone is an author, everyone is a writer and I think that the process of writing is deeply spiritual and liberatory.

My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he lived through stories. I think, like many writers, he loved stories about things he had experienced as much as, if not more than, he loved the experiences themselves.

Once I started writing novels, I understood how hard it was to write really good short stories.

Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful than others, maybe, but in the end the only thing that counts is what you can make people believe.

Love is anticipation and memory, uncertainty and longing. It’s unreasonable, of course. Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope and pleasure as love, except maybe writing a story. And nothing fails as often, except writing stories. And like a story, love must be troubled to be interesting.

I started writing because I saw such a huge lack of complex stories about the inner city.

have a much harder time writing stories than novels. I need the expansiveness of a novel and the propulsive energy it provides. When I think about scene - and when I teach scene writing - I'm thinking about questions. What questions are raised by a scene? What questions are answered? What questions persist from scene to scene to scene?

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

I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.

When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.

'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.

I'm very interested in writing - it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels.

If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.

I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems to be mostly about craft, and writing is just, like, getting out your passion on a piece of paper.

When I write my novels, I'm not writing them to make political points. I'm writing them because I passionately love monsters and the weird and horror stories and strange situations and surrealism, and what I want to do is communicate that. But, because I come at this with a political perspective, the world that I'm creating is embedded with many of the concerns that I have. But I never let them get in the way of the monsters.

Most of the stories I write are women's stories - but the darker, unseen stories.

What makes my work my own is where I'm writing from. And I feel like I have a million stories to write about Chicago.

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

I'm grateful for being able to explore different avenues of my writing, whether it be music or stories, and it have an audience.

Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.

I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want them to make the connection that books are people's stories, that writing is talking on paper, and I want them to write their own stories. I'd like my books to provide that connection for them.

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

You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.

I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.

Distractions have never prevented a Writing Writer Who Writes from writing; distractions are an excuse proffered by Non-Writing Non-Writers Who are Not-Writing for why they are not writing.

When I wrote Wakolda at first I wasn't conscious that I was writing about something so close to or that had so many similar elements with XXY. It was just after I was done writing that I noticed it. I think both teenagers in each film have many similarities, and Mengele is the extreme version of the plastic surgeon in XXY. Both stories definitely have several ideas connecting them.

Humans are kind of story-propagating creatures. If you think of how we spend our days, think of all the time you spend on entertainment. How much of your entertainment centers around stories? Most pieces of music tell stories. Even hanging out with your friends, you talk, you tell stories to each other. They're all stories. We live in stories.

Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that.

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

Castle is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.

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

I start writing songs first as an entertainer, and I like funny stories that wrap up with dignity.

I started out writing stories because that's all I wanted to read, but now I don't know if I'll ever write one again.

Ever since I started writing music, I've wanted to know what the songs are about and to be able to tell stories.

There are a million ideas in a world of stories. Humans are storytelling animals. Everything's a story, everyone's got stories, we're perceiving stories, we're interested in stories. So to me, the big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what's the right way to tell a particular story.

And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.

Francie was ten years old when she first found an outlet in writing. What she wrote was of little consequence. What was important was that the attempt to write stories kept her straight on the dividing line between truth and fiction. If she had not found this outlet in writing, she might have grown up to be a tremendous liar.

If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.

I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier.

It's extremely important for women to be writing their own stories and giving them to people to really be emotionally impacted by

I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.

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