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What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.

— Malorie Blackman

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I'm so focused on trying to craft the story that I'm in my own little world with it and that process. The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.

— Sara Zarr

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.

— Theodore Sturgeon

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

— James McBride

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.

— Marie Lu

I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.

— Alistair MacLeod

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.

— Jules Renard

I write and draw from the gut. I often don't know what my stories are about until they're done.

— Jeff Lemire

✗Opposing Perspectives

So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.

— Jack Vance

I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.

— David Levithan

When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point.

— Lauren DeStefano