Battle Quote by Danai Gurira

As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find…

— Walter Dean Myers

“People often ask me what advice I have for writers, and I reply that the most important responsibility I believe a writer has is…

— Clive Barker

I think that, as a writer, while it's your job to construct stories, you have to navigate your way through them with your heart.

— Abi Morgan

I'm not a writer, inherently. Most of the writers I've met have stories they need to tell. I don't have that. I'm an interpreter.…

— Mark Strong

We're all born storytellers. It's part of the species. But, more specifically, I suppose a particular combination of sensitivity and trauma made me a…

— Nic Pizzolatto

My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am…

— William Trevor

I tell stories, and I do it through writing, through acting, through my stand-up, and through directing. All the hats I wear - producing…

— Del Shores

I think you work on the roles that draw you in and the stories you want to tell.

— Matt Bomer

Stories are the collective wisdom of everyone who has ever lived. Your job as a storyteller is not simply to entertain. Nor is it…

— Brian McDonald

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

Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible.…

— Douglas Coupland

I love seeing the light go on in aspiring writers' eyes when you point out ways to improve their prose or their story -…

— F. Paul Wilson