Writing Stories Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Writing, Stories, Five

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

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Country, Writing, Stories

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

  Steve Earle

  Writing, Stories, Four

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• 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.

  John Dufresne

  Memories, Writing, Love Is

  John Dufresne (2008). “Love Warps the Mind a Little: A Novel”, p.140, W. W. Norton & Company

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

  Stephen King

  Home, Writing, School

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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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• Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Breathing, Stories

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• Well, we're meant to be writing stories today.

  Mark Haddon

  Writing, Stories, Today

  Mark Haddon, Simon Stephens (2013). “Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: The Play”, p.15, A&C Black

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• Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.

  Eudora Welty

  Grief, Flower, Writing

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• Writing stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for a while, live more than one life, walk more than one path. Reading, of course, can do the same.

  Emma Donoghue

  Reading, Writing, Individuality

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

  Patricia Cornwell

  Book, Writing, Kids

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. December 9, 2011.

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• I started writing stories as a child.

  Danielle Steel

  Children, Writing, Ukulele

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

  Cary Fukunaga

  Writing, Stories, Firsts

  Interview with Michael Moore, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

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• I always wrote. I've written stories since I was 9. We didn't have a computer at home, but my aunt Magda had one. Whenever I'd go to her place, I was in the basement working on her computer, writing stories.

  Xavier Dolan

  Home, Writing, Aunt

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Nick Blaemire

  Writing, People, Stories

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.

  Don DeLillo

  Writing, Needs, Looks

  "Interviews with Don DeLillo". Cinerepublic Interview, perival.com. April 22, 2012.

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• The democratic race is really boring when the media is basically writing stories and spending money to ask questions in a poll about somebody who is not even a declared candidate.

  Dana Perino

  Writing, Race, Media

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I can remember as a college student writing stories and novels, some of which ended up getting published and some that didn't. It was like my head was going to burst - there were so many things I wanted to write all at once. I had so many ideas, jammed up. It was like they just needed permission to come out.

  Stephen King

  Writing, College, Ideas

  Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. October 31, 2014.

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• Don't get me wrong, God Bless the farmers and cowboys. It just wasn't the life I wanted. When writing stories of other lands, I can describe people and places from actual experience. And for someone with an imagination like me, I could see dinosaurs and lost civilizations in the jungle of Vietnam.

  Tom Johnson

  Writing, Cowboy, Land

  Source: ravenswoodpublishing.blogspot.com

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• I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.

  Christine Feehan

  Book, Writing, Stories

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

  Wendell Berry

  Writing, Historical, Fiction

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• If nobody is looking for a story, and I have no reason to write a story, I would really much rather to do anything else because it's no fun writing stories, particularly not for me. I just do it in order to sell them and make a couple of bucks.

  Stan Lee

  Couple, Fun, Writing

  "Stan Lee on Realism in the World of Comic Heroes". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 27, 2006.

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• I wasn't writing stories with the intention of creating a particular collection. I simply wrote stories, and then discovered common themes among a good number of them.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Writing, Creating, Numbers

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think anything we do - eating, walking down the street, online shopping - gives you another perspective on writing stories.

  Peter Orner

  Writing, Thinking, Shopping

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Usually, I have a lot of acquaintance with the story before I start writing it. When I didn't have regular time to give to writing, stories would just be working in my head for so long that when I started to write I was deep into them. Now, I do that work by filling notebooks.

  Alice Munro

  Notebook, Writing, Long

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