People Quote by Anne Lamott

“You own everything that happend to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.…

— Doreen Carvajal

Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to read a…

— John Green

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.

— Anne Lamott

I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people.

— George Noory

I wanted to write a book about two women falling in love that wasn't hinged on tragedy or that involved some horrible identity-based misfortune.…

— Camille Perri

Some people tell stories and some people tell the truth!

— Amber Williams

Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.

— John Green

Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.

— Edward P. Jones

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

— Damon Lindelof

This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell stories, and tell…

— Dario Argento

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

Write as if your parents are dead.

— Anne Lamott