If you can tell stories, create characters, devise…

If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“If you can create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.”

— Somerset Maughn

“Vision, emotion, sincerity, passion and creativity. Without these attributes a writer has only his pen with which to speak to his audience”

— Bill Knight English Writer Copywriter Cynic

I'm sure fame is yet to come; however, it's not my ultimate goal. I really just want to be able to tell stories, and…

— Jessica Barth

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

— Chinua Achebe

In the degree that we remember and retell our stories and create new ones we become the authors, the authorities, of our own lives.

— Sam Keen

The stories I create are never as awful as reality.

— Henning Mankell

“When you create stories, you create a new world.”

— Robert A. Messer

My inspiration is my life, what I see happening around me. It can be history and, quite often, plain traditional fairy tales. But I…

— Michel Ocelot

In making up stories, as in reading stories, I could create a contained world in which an experience is shared in its entirety.

— Claire Messud

I certainly knew from an early age... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads.

— Clive Barker

“Stories create stories, create stories, create stories, or nothing gets done.”

— Bill Willingham

“One more nice thing about short stories is that you can create a story out of the smallest details -an idea that springs up…

— Haruki Murakami

We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.

— Hector Tobar

I've always just wanted to tell stories, and create stuff, and I think "Creator" or "Director" would probably be the two words that I…

— Shane Dawson