Criticism Quote by Federico Fellini

I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.

— Vikas Swarup

When you're writing personal stories, you have to be totally uncompromising - to the extent that you can be - about yourself. I know…

— Rob Lowe

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

— Tom Clancy

It's very difficult to be objective about yourself and your own circumstances, but one thing I do know about is that I grew up…

— Irvine Welsh

I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

— Tanith Lee

For better or worse, I seem to gravitate toward writing about something or someone else, then have my own self shove its way into…

— Lucas Mann

All my stories are mainly slice-of-life and rooted to real issues and situations that I have experienced myself.

— Shoojit Sircar

Even though I read voraciously as a child, I never saw myself in books. Without narratives to expand my ideas of who I could…

— Jesmyn Ward

“So the challenge, as you contemplate your next opportunity to be boring or remarkable, is to answer these two questions: (1) "If I get…

— Seth Godin

The fact that I get to write and direct my own personal story is an amazing thing.

— Nicole Holofcener

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.

— Paul Auster

You have to appreciate the finer points of your work; criticise, too, if needed. I am also my own worst and most honest critic.…

— Kamal Haasan