Books Quote by Alexandra Fuller

I'm a storyteller; I write what I want to read.

— Jackie Collins

I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the…

— Al Yankovic

We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at…

— Bill Harley

When I'm sure I have a story, I call my collaborators and we begin to discuss it. And we conduct studies of certain subjects…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

— Anthony Bourdain

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.

— Naomi Shihab Nye

I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart.

— Robert Crais

I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view. It's informed…

— Ted Dekker

Writing stories, adopting other characters, making up fantastic stories and tales, this is a way of perhaps enhancing who I am. Writing stories takes…

— David Small

You can recognize in your own reading habits what writers are doing that works and what doesn't. I'm becoming much more aware of that…

— Dan Chaon

I read a lot of autobiographical stories, and I write plays and prose. And I play piano and cello. A lot of my downtime…

— Alexis Dziena

I think many people have wonderful stories inside them and the talent to tell those stories. But the writing life, with its isolation and…

— Ellen Ullman