Able Quote by J.H. Wyman

Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.

— Emily Dickinson

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have…

— Tracy Kidder

For many years now I have listened to the stories of people with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses as their counselor. From them I…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

I like to write from a slightly sad or complicated place. But with a sense of hope and happiness at the same time.

— Eliot Sumner

I am a storyteller, and the stories I tell are, when I'm lucky, really good ones. It's a very exciting thing to do with…

— John Lithgow

I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.

— Danielle Steel

What I write is emotionally honest and truthful as the human experience can be, to make people feel less alone, or at least that's…

— Mike Birbiglia

I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell…

— Andrew Solomon

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

— Anonymous

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

— Todd Solondz

You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.

— John Green

I've tried to write deep and serious. I spent years working to write a story that would make my writing group cry.

— Jim C. Hines