I have a desire to tell stories. And I'm never quite…

In its jolly mission to expose the dark underbelly of the children’s book world, Wild Things! turns up stories I’ve been hearing noised about…

— Paul O. Zelinsky

The characters in my stories all have quite loud lives in my head. It's a relief to get them on the page. Often they…

— Rachel Joyce

My stories are never quite good enough

— Anne Tyler

I couldn't run from that desire to tell stories, that desire to tell stories about us, and about the people I loved.

— Jesmyn Ward

“You must give up your desire for someone to tell you your choices were correct in the end.”

— F.C. Yee

In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.

— Murasaki Shikibu

Everyone may have the desire to tell the truth but only a few have the courage to tell it.

— Terry Mark

She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your…

— Milan Kundera

“My desire to tell is stronger than my shame to deny.”

— Dennis Patrick Slattery

...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience. I hope…

— Orson Scott Card

“so we had to tell our stories and they were stories.”

— Charles Bukowski

I guess I'm just inspired to tell stories.

— Frank Ocean

“Each of us, along with our ancestors, inhabits the same cosmos. When we tell stories, we enter the stream of human consciousness; we take…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Some people tell stories and some people tell the truth!

— Amber Williams

I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.

— Damon Lindelof