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

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Author:Philip Pullman

“There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.”

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Book:The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

Source: The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

“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.”

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Book:Love Warps the Mind a Little: A Novel

Source: Love Warps the Mind a Little: A Novel

“Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.”

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Book:Inkheart

Source: Inkheart

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

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Author:Ray Bradbury

“My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.”

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

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Book:Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: The Play

Source: Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: The Play

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.”

“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."”

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Author:Jhumpa Lahiri

“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.”

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Author:Eudora Welty

“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.”

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Author:Emma Donoghue

“If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.”

“I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.”

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Author:Edgar Rice Burroughs

“Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.”

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Author:Alice Munro

“You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.”

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Author:Larry Niven

“Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.”

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Author:Anne McCaffrey

“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.”

“All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.”

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Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.”

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Author:Edgar Rice Burroughs

“I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.”

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Author:Roald Dahl

“When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.”

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Author:Stephen King

“I started writing stories as a child.”

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Author:Danielle Steel

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

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Author:Patricia Cornwell

“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.”

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Author:Scarlett Thomas

“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day.”

“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.”

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Author:Todd Solondz

“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.”

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Author:T.C. Boyle

“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.”

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Author:Sara Sheridan

“Writers end up writing stories-or rather, stories' shadows-and they're grateful if they can, but it is not enough. Nothing the writer can do is ever enough”

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Author:Joy Williams

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

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Author:Steve Earle

“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.”

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Author:Alice Munro

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

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Author:Tobias Wolff

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

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Author:Jhumpa Lahiri

“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.”

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Author:Vittorio Storaro

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

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Author:Julianna Baggott

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

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Author:Randa Abdel-Fattah

“I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in love with writing stories and seeing them go out into the world. It's magical, you know?”

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Author:Dorothea Benton Frank

“I started writing stories in my spare time.”

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Author:Ken Follett

“I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.”

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Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

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