26 Quotes About Story Writing

Writers, poets, and artists have a way of touching the soul. One of the most important parts of expressing our feelings is how we describe them. By using words to get our thoughts on paper, we’re able to get a better understanding of the raw emotions we feel. That’s why writing stories is so important to us Read more

They allow us to get all that emotion out into the world and share it with others. If you’re a writer yourself, these inspirational quotes about writing will help you keep going when you hit a rough patch.

Can you imagine a world without books to read?
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Can you imagine a world without books to read? Lailah Gifty Akita
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Be a good reader first, if you wish to become a good writer. Pawan Mishra
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A writer gets to live yet another life every time she creates a new story. Pawan Mishra
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Writing a story is like going on a date–you will spoil it if you aren't living in the moment. Pawan Mishra
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Tell a story in lesser and simpler words. Pawan Mishra
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Don’t break the rules when you haven’t fully figured them out yet. Pawan Mishra
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Dreams are good at playing with your memory. They love leaving no trace behind and hate to show up once again in the morning. Pawan Mishra
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The good writing ideas don’t have to be about political turmoil, mass killings, capitalism, racism, injustice, etc. Find that one idea that has deep roots in your heart. Pawan Mishra
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Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Else they are likely going to move on to another book. Pawan Mishra
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A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books. Pawan Mishra
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Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature. Pawan Mishra
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Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time. Pawan Mishra
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If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don’t suffocate your heart. Pawan Mishra
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As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words. Pawan Mishra
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Don’t interrupt when your characters take a flight of their own. Pawan Mishra
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Cliches are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases. Pawan Mishra
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If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be. Pawan Mishra
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If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout the story. Pawan Mishra
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The story we write today will support the next generation. Lailah Gifty Akita
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I'll call any length of fiction a story, whether it be a novel or a shorter piece, and I'll call anything a story in which specific characters and events influence each other to form a meaningful narrative. I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. Then they find themselves writing a sketch with an essay woven through it, or an essay with a sketch woven through it, or an editorial with a character in it, or a case history with a moral, or some other mongrel thing. When they realize that they aren't writing stories, they decide that the remedy for this is to learn something that they refer to as "the technique of the short story" or "the technique of the novel." Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it is something organic, something that grows out of the material, and this being the case, it is different for every story of any account that has ever been written. . Flannery OConnor
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Those who suffer much, have much to say. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Sometimes, we think faster than what we write. Lailah Gifty Akita
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We write to share the deepest heart-talk of our souls. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Come with me to the mountains. Every rock there tells a story. Avijeet Das
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And it's just dawned on me that I might be the author of my own story, but so is everyone else the author of their own stories, and sometimes, like now, there's no overlap. Jandy Nelson