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It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

— A. E. van Vogt

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✓Similar Perspectives

Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.

— A. E. van Vogt

It took me many years to figure out how to structure a compelling story.

— Jessica Abel

Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.

— Bob Kane

I came up with a story and I wrote it.

— E. L. James

It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years.

— Jean M. Auel

I started my career as a novelist. 'Veronica Mars' was first imagined as a novel.

— Rob Thomas

In 'A Likely Story,' I wanted to recreate the events, the mood, and the imagery of my life as a teenager. I was thirty-seven when I wrote it.

— Rosemary Mahoney

In the early Seventies, I started writing a little autobiographical novel about my childhood - I made it into a mystery story.

— Bobbie Ann Mason

I wanted to write stories I wanted to read, that I and my friends related to.

— Jane Green

✗Opposing Perspectives

From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.

— Jean M. Auel