Writing Stories Quotes (page 2)

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• time
• writing
• stories

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

• writing
• writings
• knowing

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose. P. G. Wodehouse

• book
• kids
• writing

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

• writing
• writes
• story writing

I started writing stories as a child. Danielle Steel

• home
• bed
• school

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

• home
• feeling
• writing

All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with. Maeve Binchy

• look
• hope
• writing

I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they'll enjoy looking at it at any rate, whatever it is. And that's why I started writing stories on my work. Faith Ringgold

• time
• writing
• organizer

As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000. Julian Assange

• short
• writing
• week

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row. Ray Bradbury

• writing
• evening
• true

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

• people
• giving
• writing

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either. Meg Cabot

• question
• classic
• literature

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

• magic
• real
• wonder

Writing novels is much the same. You gather up bones and make your gate, but no matter how wonderful the gate might be, that alone doesn't make it a living breathing novel. A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side. Haruki Murakami

• waiting
• different
• writing

Story ideas had never been a problem for him, there'd always been more ideas than time to write them, he'd reject one perfectly good notion because he fell more simpatico toward a different one. But of course he could never go back to any of those ancient story stubs, they wouldn't still have juice in them. For him, creating a novel was like gardening; you choose your seed, you treat it exactly the way the package says, and gradually a thing of beauty - or of sturdiness, or of nutrition -... Donald E. Westlake

• best
• writing
• any

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter. Neil Gaiman