I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be…

I noticed people would read these short articles I was assigned to write for our church bulletin and they would say, Boy, thats good…

— Max Lucado

I still do get all these letters from people saying they are not pronouncing my name correctly!

— Annastacia Palaszczuk

a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)

— Gore Vidal

If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and listen. Let…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Having something worth telling and a passion to tell it are what make you a good writer. I can't tell you how many times…

— Chris Colfer

A dramatic writer should never tell anything he can show.

— Nunnally Johnson

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.

— Ernest Gaines

What one's goal should be is just to become a better writer and to tell different kinds of stories.

— Diane Mott Davidson

Appealing to the five senses is the feature that will always set writing apart from the visual media. A good writer will tell us…

— Janet Fitch

I have an obligation as a writer to tell a story as interestingly as possible, but with integrity and not inserting false drama... I'm…

— Jonathan Coleman

If somebody gave you several thousand dollars and nothin' to do but write, would you be a writer then? Would you tell your stories,…

— Dorothy Allison

I believe that a writer has to tell what they think is the truth in a human experience. The truth of the human experience…

— Walter Mosley

“It is not the task of a writer to 'tell all,' or even to decide what to leave in, but to decide what to…

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

You are a writer when you tell yourself you are. No one else's opinion matters. Screw them. You are when you say you are.

— Steven Pressfield

Your first obligation as a writer is to tell the truth and to tell a good story.

— Lena Waithe