Top 100 Quotes About Writing Love Stories
#1. I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.
Rainbow Rowell
#2. For Eva, there is no better day than one spent with her laptop writing love stories with a naughty twist.
Eva Lilly
#3. What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.
I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief and love and pity and God. I can be brave. I can make myself feel again.
Tim O'Brien
#4. Being a writer, I take thing seriously (not too seriously). I may be a young writer/self publisher, I do love to write and I want to share my stories to the world. but more importantly, I do take writing seriously.
Simi Sunny
#5. I became an author because I love words. I enjoyed playing with them when I was a kid, writing stories and plays, and doing whatever I could think to do with words. I kept my love of them growing up and still love to see what they can do.
James Howe
#6. I never use the word 'sex' in my novels - that is not what romance is about. It's about love and emotion. All my stories were different but they all had a happy ending - the perfect finish to any romance.
Jean S. MacLeod
#7. Writing stories is like making love. --from Creating Juicy Tales
June Gillam
#8. You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
Annie Proulx
#9. And then it dawned on me that the greatest love stories in the world never have happy endings.
Avijeet Das
#10. I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.
Kate Morton
#11. I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.
Christine Feehan
#12. Even if you're not selling your stories yet, your writing time is precious, often gained at the expense of other worthwhile activities. Don't waste it on a book you don't love.
Rachel Aaron
#13. I love to tell stories and I love to work with directors and I think I write really visually, which I think directors like, and I love making movies, so I found something that I'm good at and I'm really happy doing.
John Orloff
#14. You're with you 24/7; you must love you the most.
A.D. Posey
#15. Even if I never sold another book, I'd keep writing, because the stories are here, in my head. Stories that just need to be told. I love watching a plot unfold, and feeling the surprise when the unexpected happens.
Tess Gerritsen
#16. Ugh! How many stories about love, copulation, marriage and death already exist, not one of which tells the truth! How sick I am of well-constructed plots and brilliant writing!
Sadegh Hedayat
#17. Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.
Ray Bradbury
#18. Don't judge me by my books. They're not my voices, and they were never my stories to tell.
Nadege Richards
#19. Most stories are not about people
but about life, an addiction like the rest of them
that destroys you even as you love it,
but you love it anyway and can never get enough.
Michael Hogan
#20. In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.
Nicholas Sparks
#21. Love is anticipation and memory, uncertainty and longing. It's unreasonable, of course. Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope and pleasure as love, except maybe writing a story. And nothing fails as often, except writing stories. And like a story, love must be troubled to be interesting.
John Dufresne
#22. Listen: Love your fiction, even if you hate the act of creating that fiction, love the stories to a fault. Cry at your tragedies, laugh at your jokes, rejoice at your character's victories - or give it all up and go knit a damned sweater, instead.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#23. I love my career. It is a career. A difficult one that takes many hours and total dedication to my craft. It is also what I was born to do
tell stories and entertain.
Michelle M. Pillow
#24. The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one ...
Lawrence Block
#25. But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.
Orson Scott Card
#26. Even if you're an observer of a story that you yourself made up, you're still very much connected to it. You love it and feel it, no less than somebody's who's writing from their direct 'I' or 'me.' I'm just so much more interesting in stories than confessions.
Regina Spektor
#27. I love the cultural and intellectual stimulation of living in a city, but I also want the beauty and tranquility of the country where I can imagine my love stories and bring them to life on paper.
Valerie Parv
#28. I love writing stories about regular people dealing with life's biggest questions.
Nick Blaemire
#30. I write every day and I just love doing it. It's just a wonderful thing. Some of my stories work, some of them don't work. Some of them are wild and I love them, but they certainly don't fit into any kind of a normal system that I know about.
Walter Mosley
#31. Your life is truly your life ... it belongs to you. It is your story to write with love. Day by day, line by line, write it well
Lance Wubbels
#32. Your life is a story. Write the one you want to read.
A.D. Posey
#33. Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.
Joss Whedon
#34. I love writing Christmas stories, especially of the historical variety.
Linda Lael Miller
#35. I love stories. I just enjoy telling stories and watching what these characters do - although writing continues to be just as hard as it always was.
Martha Grimes
#36. So I have 8 to 10 screenplays written and unproduced. And frankly, some of them are my favorite stories. I have a Western version of The Count Of Monte Cristo where the count has a clockwork hand. I have a screenplay called Mephisto's Bridge about a Faustian deal with the devil. I love them all.
Guillermo Del Toro
#37. Only by creating out of love will one achieve true greatness.
A.D. Posey
#38. Somewhere In Time is the story of a love which transcends time , What Dreams May Come is the story of a love which transcends death ... I feel that they represent the best writing I have done in the novel form.
Richard Matheson
#39. I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it.
Joan Larkin
#40. You are in love with my husband. You need some acting lessons to learn to hide it better.
Mary Papas
#41. I make books because I love them as objects; because I want to put the pictures and the words together, because I want to tell a story.
Audrey Niffenegger
#42. After I published my first book, my sister, known as Kali Willows, began writing. She fell as in love with it as I did. She has a number of short stories.
Franny Armstrong
#43. I loved short stories, and they were all I wanted to write. I love the compression of them and the exactitude needed to get a whole world into such a small space.
Debra Dean
#44. Every one has a story someone in the world needs to hear.
Tami Belt
#45. A shrink and a patient in a love-hate relationship. Who is REALLY the boss?
Mary Papas
#46. I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
#47. I love outsider stories. And I also like a lot of genre fiction, too. So I wanted to write a literary book that flirted with thriller and fantasy and even science fiction. I wanted the coming-of-age story and the love story to be about "outsiderdom" - one of the themes I am most interested in.
Porochista Khakpour
#48. I want to have enough data, so I won't write myself into thin air, so that I can extrapolate and give you this secret human infrastructure. The only way I sate my own curiosity is to create this from scratch. There must be commanding love stories. There must be great moral cost.
James Ellroy
#49. I love YA, and it's been a really good fit for me. But at some point, I would like to try something else: a collection of short stories, or writing about something other than high school. A lot has happened to me since I was eighteen.
Sarah Dessen
#50. Revenge. Justice. Love. They are the three stories that all other stories are made up of. It's the trifecta.
April Genevieve Tucholke
#52. A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really aren't that terrific.
James Patterson
#53. I think I'll always want to write and direct. I'm interested in producing and helping other people tell stories. But I'm still in love with writing and directing.
Shane Carruth
#54. I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them.
Neil Jackson
#55. You can write when you're dyslexic, you just can't read it. But I started writing short stories as a child and I found the short story format a real nice one. I love short stories and I love short documentaries or short films of any kind.
Billy Bob Thornton
#56. I write about love all the time, what a tragedy those stories turn into.
Turcois Ominek
#57. I love telling stories and I love writing so the fact that I can do it professionally is something that I've always been very grateful for.
Christopher Paolini
#58. I wanted to write a story that was different than what I've done before - so I decided to write dual love stories that will keep the reader wondering how the stories will come together by the end.
Nicholas Sparks
#59. As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.
Nathaniel Philbrick
#61. Have the courage to walk in truth, the strength to love always, and the integrity to never stray away from doing so.
A.D. Posey
#62. A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.
Lorrie Moore
#64. I've discovered I love the vast landscape a series offers. I tend to write long anyway, so, it turns out, series gives me the perfect vehicle for writing 'large' stories.
Mary E. Pearson
#65. Writing stories was always a bit like falling in love with a stranger and running off to Marrakech for a long weekend. It didn't have to be successful to be thrilling.
Ann Patchett
#66. Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it.
Sara Sheridan
#67. Love is the key to everything. Love your life.
A.D. Posey
#68. I could write stories; I could hide from the world and make my own instead of trying to change it or live in it. I could make paper people and I would love them too; I could make them almost real.
Ally Condie
#69. I love words. I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail. I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum. I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over. In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#70. Kids love me because I write stories that tell them about their capacity for evil. I'm one of the few writers who lets you cleanse yourself that way.
Ray Bradbury
#72. For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same in all of us: love, pity, terror do not show favorites or leave any of us out.
Eudora Welty
#73. I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in love with writing stories and seeing them go out into the world. It's magical, you know?
Dorothea Benton Frank
#74. Energy will go into what you love, and what you love will grow. Go for a walk and watch it bloom.
A.D. Posey
#75. I'm probably the most loquacious author when it comes to my dedications. The reason is there is some symbolism there. I've been writing these books, bringing these stories to my readers who I love so much, and I have a greater love for my family.
Karen Kingsbury
#76. I like to write about people who are real and likeable. I like to write about people who tell their stories in that close and intimate voice we use with best friends. I love the closeness and honesty and vulnerability that come from characters who can talk that way.
Katherine Center
#77. I used to love to make things - you couldn't drag me away for dinner because I was always writing a story or something.
Fiona Apple
#78. Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.
Mary Stuart Masterson
#79. I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier.
Karen Russell
#80. Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it.
Kevin James Breaux
#81. Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.
Paulo Coelho
#82. Learning is essential for living the life you love.
A.D. Posey
#83. One of the less vaunted joys of Austen is that she is one of the greatest writers in the English language who also happened to write witty romance novels. Women enjoy the love stories in Austen the same way men read Hemingway for the hunting and fishing: it provides guiltless pleasure.
Alessandra Stanley
#84. Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
Nicholas Sparks
#85. I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.
Anthony Davis
#86. Getting an idea is not enough.
But when you get two ideas, and they collide and have a bastard love child, that's when true stories are born.
Johan M. Dahlgren
#87. Speak up and speak clearly. I want to hear what you have to say because it matters. Let's listen to each other and respect one another's opinions. Although, they may be different, wisdom allows us to be responsible for our own feelings and actions.
Felicia Johnson
#89. I love being a writer-director. I couldn't imagine directing without writing it. You have to write and tell your stories - that's what directing is to me.
Mike Mills
#91. I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.
Mary Karr
#92. I live in different worlds. One world where I perform my duty as a part of society. My favorite is my world. The writing's world.
Ria Tumimomor
#93. I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.
Jacqueline Woodson
#94. I love writing for myself. I read them [my stories], I cry over them sometimes.
Grace Ogot
#95. My novels are in the literature section as opposed to the romance section of bookstores because they're not romance novels. If I tried to have them published as romances, they'd be rejected. I write dramatic fiction; a further sub-genre would classify them as love stories.
Nicholas Sparks
#96. I write because I love. I love because I write.
A.D. Posey
#98. My job takes up many daylight hours, it wakes me in the still of night and fills my head with ghosts and monsters but I love it, telling stories is what I was born to do.
Ken Scott
#99. I'm writing, I'm using language, I'm using that language to tell stories and even more so to get ideas across. And I just love that, and I've always loved that.
Walter Mosley
#100. There were many words piled up inside my chest, stories waiting to be told. I wanted to hand all this knowledge to one other person, neither a master nor a disciple. I sought an equal - a companion.
Elif Shafak
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