I would spend my time telling stories or writing them.
I started writing stories as a child.
It's extremely important for women to be writing their own stories and giving them to people to really be emotionally impacted by
Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork.
I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've written a lot of stories. I've got dozens of stories I've written that no one's ever seen.
Well, we're meant to be writing stories today.
I was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for opportunities to write stories for some of my other classes. So for my course in Scandinavian history, I asked if I could write historical fiction instead of term papers. Sometimes they’d say yes.
I'm a professional. So before I published any novels, I'd always been writing stories.
I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of what I did.
If you can't sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a story?
The best thing about being an author is writing stories and having people - strangers all over the world - connect with them.
As a kid I used to always write these stories... some of them were really cute; some of them were kind of crazy.
I've loved writing since I was little. I used to write stories.
Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social injustice and people chewed up by the system.
For most of my life - well, maybe half of my life, but basically until I was in my mid-20s - I wrote stories. From the time I was 5 or 6 until I was 25. And I read a lot of stories during that time.
As a little girl, I used to write stories, but by my teenage years, I got out of the habit.
One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.
I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
I wasn't really a dark kid, but I was in my head a lot. I got good grades all through my 16 years of Catholic school, but I was always writing these weird - and, I have to say, really bad - stories, filled with murder.
I've been writing stories, in one form or another, since I was a kid.
I also write stories and want to show these stories to the world; someday someone might want to direct them.
Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.
I love writing Christmas stories, especially of the historical variety.
When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.
Now I don't drink, and I get up in the morning and I write in my diary, and I can write in my diary for hours if I feel like it. And I'm still sober so I can write the stories that I'm working on, and I can sit at the desk as long as I need to. So that changed a lot, I think.
