If you want to write, read Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, The Possessed, Knut Hamsun’s Mysteries and The Growth of the Soil, Sartre’s Nausea, De Beauvoir’s All Men are Mortal, and Thomas Merton’s Seven Story Mountain, then imitate that. No one will know you are imitating unless they have read those books and are very smart. Just get those books and read them, the order doesn’t matter. Stories have a beginning middle and end, and something should happen that should be of interest to the reader. If you do this all, stories will come. If you cannot do this, if you give up, you don’t actually want to be a writer.
This was from a facebook conversation I had with Noah Cicero.