Writing Stories Quotes - Page 2

• If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

  Toni Morrison

  Inspirational, Happiness, Attitude

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• The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.198, Grove Press

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• After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

  Philip Pullman

  Book, Writing, Mind

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• Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Effort, Needs

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.25, Anchor

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• It was not in my nature to be an assertive person. I was used to looking to others for guidance, for influence, sometimes for the most basic cues of life. And yet writing stories is one of the most assertive things a person can do. Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconceive, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among the most reluctant and doubtful of writers, this willfulness must emerge. Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying, "Listen to me."

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Writing, Mean, Reality

  "Trading Stories". www.newyorker.com. June 13 & 20, 2011.

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• Writing stories has given me the power to change things I could not change as a child. I can make boys into doctors. I can make fathers stop drinking. I can make mothers stay.

  Cynthia Rylant

  Mother, Children, Father

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• I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.

  Mary Karr

  Falling In Love, Writing, Thinking

  "Mary Karr Interview: “Lit” Part II". Interview with Steve Ross, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Writing, Kids, Stories

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

  Tobias Wolff

  Time, Writing, Stories

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• For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure.

  Sara Sheridan

  Writing, Adventure, Curiosity

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• But then, that's the beauty of writing stories-each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there's no feeling like it.

  T.C. Boyle

  Writing, Journey, Feelings

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• It's hard not to be enthusiastic when you like what you're doing and I love what I do. I love writing stories, I love coming up with ideas for new projects and I love the people I work with, because I work with great writers and artists and directors and actors.

  Stan Lee

  Writing, Artist, Ideas

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

  Julianna Baggott

  Lying, Writing, Stories

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• I was always writing stories, even as a kid. I always wanted to be in the plays and do that sort of thing. Screenwriting started to really appeal to me because the idea of being able to make things that many people got to see became very captivating.

  Katie Wech

  Writing, Kids, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• It's funny - for a long time, I didn't know I was writing a book. I was writing stories. For me, each story took so long and took so much out of me, that when I finished it, I was like, Oh my gosh, I feel like I've poured everything from myself into this, and then I'd get depressed for a week. And then once I was ready to write a new story, I would want to write about something that was completely different, so I would search for a totally different character with a different set of circumstances.

  Molly Antopol

  Book, Writing, Character

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later on.

  Etgar Keret

  Writing, People, Stories

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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

  Jess Walter

  Writing, Stories, Novel

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Writing, Thinking, Roles

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• We are writing stories with light and darkness, motion and colors. It is a language with its own vocabulary and unlimited possibilities for expressing our inner thoughts and feelings.

  Vittorio Storaro

  Writing, Vocabulary, Light

  By Despina Mouzaki, www.filmfestival.gr.

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• 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?

  Edan Lepucki

  Writing, Thinking, Energy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• At eleven I was at the peak of my creative powers: I was writing stories and playlets, putting together poetryprojects. I was absorbed by my 'work.' At twelve I was no longer reading or writing, just counting off days and checking them off. I was interested in survival.

  Todd Solondz

  Reading, Writing, Creative

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• One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing stories and worrying about my clothes.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Girl, Reading, Writing

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• 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.

  J. K. Rowling

  Senior, Writing, Years

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• I feel incredibly fortunate to have had the level of success I've had. I was just writing stories for my own sons.

  Rick Riordan

  Writing, Son, Stories

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• Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.

  Cornelia Funke

  Writing, Magic, Stories

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.525, Scholastic Inc.

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