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Everyone has a story to tell. All you have to do is write it. But it's not that easy.

Sometimes, a writer's life alone can tell a story.

To combine telling an interesting story with brilliantly written characters is the most difficult thing to do.

There are so many stories to be told, by so many good writers.

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.

Writing is an extremely rewarding and humbling process, and I've learned to go with it, that even if it feels absolutely impossible, I will find a way to tell the next story.

Basically, all novelists should want to tell a story, and if they don't want to, they shouldn't be novelists. I think story-telling is important and underrated.

You can't write just anything. Your story needs structure.

I don't know any writer for whom it comes easily. Maybe John Updike - a story would just seem to come to him whole, you know, out of a personal experience. But the rest of us, I think, are not so lucky, and I had to work hard, yeah.

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.