“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.” ~~ Orson Scott Card
“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.” ~~ Beatrix Potter
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ~~ Maya Angelou
“Stories may well be lies, but they
are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.” ~~ Neil Gaiman
“You should write because you love
the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a
page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to
write.” ~~ Annie Proulx
“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
“A short story is a love affair, a
novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.” ~~ Lorrie Moore
“Make up a story... For our sake
and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to
you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to
fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.” ~~ Toni Morrison
“Writing is something you do alone.
It’s a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to
make eye contact while doing it." ~~ John Green
“In many cases when a reader puts a
story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew
enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which
is to keep the ball rolling.” ~~ Stephen King
“If you want to write a fantasy
story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do
just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it?
Go ahead. Nothing's off limits. But the endless possibility of the genre is a
trap. It's easy to get distracted by the glittering props available to you and
forget what you're supposed to be doing: telling a good story. Don't get me
wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while
something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story.
Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could
ever be.” ~~ Patrick Rothfuss
“A story is a letter that the
author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to
discover otherwise.” ~~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“A story has no beginning or end:
arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or
from which to look ahead.” ~~ Graham Greene
“After writing a story I was always
empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this
was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it
over the next day.” ~~ Ernest Hemingway
“A good story is always more
dazzling than a broken piece of truth.” ~~ Diane Setterfield
“A story was a form of telepathy.
By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and
feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace
that no one stopped to wonder at it.” ~~ Ian McEwan
“The story is always better than
your ability to write it.” ~~ Robin McKinley
Hope you
enjoyed reading this collection of quotes.
Happy Reading!
