I'm a fan of creative writing and telling stories.

I was always writing and telling stories as a kid. Initially, I was like, 'Maybe I want to be an actor.' Then my mom…

— Nia DaCosta

Writing is writing. It is all about telling stories, and I've been doing that for so long, in all realms, that it all feels…

— Daveed Diggs

A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in…

— Rachel Cusk

“What’s your story? It’s all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons…

— Rebecca Solnit

Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.

— Ted Dekker

Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.

— Daniel Pinkwater

Good writing is about telling the truth.

— Anne Lamott

“Writing is more about telling other peoples' stories than your own”

— Carla H. Krueger

“Stories are truth. Through writing, you can say so much more than in speaking. Writing is not fantasizing, writing is telling the world who…

— Theprinceoftworealities

The secret of good writing is telling the truth.

— Gordon Lish

Drawing' is telling a story with pictures. 'Writing' is telling a story with words.

— Butch Hartman

Get people talking. Learn to ask questions that will elicit answers about what is most interesting or vivid in their lives. Nothing so animates…

— William Zinsser

“... writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not…

— Anne Lamott

The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the…

— Anne Lamott

Writing and telling jokes is my favorite thing to do, and I want to be able to do that forever.

— Michelle Wolf