Compelling Quote by Jay Asher Download Open image “As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.” — Jay Asher ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Compelling Only Responsibility Stories Story Writer Writing
Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer. — Jean Little Copy Share Image
I think, as writers, our first responsibility is to writing an honest story. Tell the story you want to tell, without pulling your punches. — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
This is not necessarily the answer people want, but ultimately, I think writing is an amoral process. Your ultimate responsibility is to the truth… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy. — John Green Copy Share Image
Your first obligation as a writer is to tell the truth and to tell a good story. — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I really love the work that I do, and I feel like you have to go that extra mile to do it because it… — Rachel House Copy Share Image
No matter what kind of writing you do, it's always the details that make the story. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
When you're telling a story, I think you should tell it to its fullest, with reckless abandon, and absolutely let it be what it… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to the point… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing when you're telling a story is to just tell the story as best as you possibly can. — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
Because it may seem like a small role now, but it matters. In the end, everything matters. — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
Don't give up on me now. I'm sorry. I guess that's an odd thing to say. Because isn't that what I'm doing? Giving up? — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
If you're angry, you don't have to write a poem dealing with the cause of your anger. But it needs to be an angry… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“Pero no puedes escaparte de ti misma. No puedes decidir no verte más. No puedes decidir apagar el ruido de tu cabeza.” — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life.” — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
I miss video games where the jump-kick was the trickiest combo to master. — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“One day, at least it seemed that fast, she just stopped wanting to be a part of anything.” — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
And as I stood there in the hallway―alone―trying to understand what had just happened and why, I realized the truth: I wasn't worth an… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
I was too weak to walk. At least, I thought I was too weak. But in truth, I was too weak to try. — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
Personally, I never understood the power of having books written about your experience - whatever that experience may be - until I wrote one… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
Fiction is an easy way to talk about issues: I think it feels less preachy. You can have the students discuss characters in the… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Lexicon grabbed me with the opening lines, and never let go. An absolutely thrilling story, featuring an array of compelling characters in an eerily… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God? — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
I write what I like to read, and I enjoy love triangles in YA and adult fiction - not to mention in other media… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence. — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level that one… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
For me, being on set is no different than being at a dinner table or riding the subway next to someone; inevitably their life… — Victoria Mahoney Copy Share Image
“…the excitement of doing something for the first time had passed. I laid there in the back seat looking at the moon. It was… — Karen Hinton Copy Share Image
My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing. — James Thayer Copy Share Image
Evil is relative - and what I mean by that is that our villains are as complex, as deep and as compelling as any… — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image