Story Writing – Quotes

Daydreaming had started me

Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake. Eudora Welty

Details make stories human,

Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better. Ernest Hemingway

No tears in the

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. Ernest Hemingway

There is nothing to

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. Ernest Hemingway

I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the technique, although with the publication of my new novel, Tarzan and the Lost Empire, there are 31 books on my list. Edgar Rice Burroughs

I have been successful

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. Edgar Rice Burroughs

If you write one

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

A short story must

A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it. Edgar Allan Poe

I feel that discussing

I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying where the eyes, nose, and mouth are. Flannery O’Connor

Find the key emotion;

Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story. F. Scott Fitzgerald