Stories Quote by Ethan Mordden Download Open image “If you don't want to be in a story, don't know a writer.” — Ethan Mordden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Stories Want Writing
I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be. — Ruth Park Copy Share Image
- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Well, you know, I'm quite a reluctant writer. I'm not someone who set out to be a writer or really wanted to be. — Jennifer Westfeldt Copy Share Image
I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You can't be a writer and have nothing to write about. You have to have life experiences. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it. — Ethan Mordden Copy Share Image
“The aficionado prefers a crazy bomb to a mediocrity, because the musical as a form has such potential as entertainment that the merely adequate… — Ethan Mordden Copy Share Image
“...college wasn't more school, as Chris had anticipated. School was a normalization of the familiar. College was a penetration into the exotic.” — Ethan Mordden Copy Share Image
A flop is often the result of the fact that each of the talents involved, while working on the same project, may in effect… — Ethan Mordden Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story. — Hubert Laws Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
It took me 20 years to buy an electric typewriter, because I was afraid it would be too sensitive. I like to bang the… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working… — Jill Abramson Copy Share Image
In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I think it's actually kind of sweet how there is a reciprocal effect that our stories can have on each other. — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
