Time Quote by Betty Smith

“You know, a lot of people would think that these stories that you're making up all the time were terrible lies because they are…

— Betty Smith

“A long time ago someone told me that a story will tell itself, when it's ready.”

— Jodi Picoult

“Read the stories of the past to write your story for the future.”

— Habeeb Akande

“You can write a true story that never really happened.”

— Becky Aikman

“the happening and the telling are very different things. This doesn’t mean that the story isn’t true, only that I honestly don’t know anymore…

— Karen Joy Fowler

“True stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they…

— Siri Hustvedt

“When I write an story, I start with one true thing – a memory, an image, a sensation – then I try to say…

— David Surface

“Everybody has a story that must be told. Your life is your story. Tell your story.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“We have to know the truth about the past to discover out future.”

— Patti Callahan Henry

“Got the story in mind but can not write. Knows the truth of life but can not lie.”

— Dev Timsina

“a story will tell itself, when it’s ready.”

— Jodi Picoult

“Be true to the writer within you; tell the story you're dying to tell in exactly the way you wish to tell it, and…

— Richelle E. Goodrich