Books Quote by John Edgar Wideman

People will tell you most of the story… and I’ve learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important…

— Nicholas Sparks

I think you tell the story that has to be told. You tell the story that's the truth. You tell the story that readers…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

— Ernest Hemingway

Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things…

— Andy Rooney

The only rule I have in how I let characters tell stories is that they must always tell the reader their version of the…

— Sarah Pinborough

You don't have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it.

— Maya Angelou

Fortunately, the world is full of people with information compulsion who want to tell you their stories. They want to tell you things that…

— Anonymous

It's often said that everybody has a story to tell, and I suppose that's true, but the problem is that most of them aren't…

— Michael Korda

I don't mind a narrator who's self-deceiving, but the clues for their truth have to be there for the reader to see.

— Sarah Pinborough

The thing is you can never sugarcoat anything, If you're going to tell a story, tell the truth. If you're going to tell something,…

— Rich Swann

If someone isn't important enough, to tell them the truth, why tell them anything at all.

— Anonymous

“All they're trying to do is tell you what they're like, and what you're like—what's going on—what the weather is now, today, this moment,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin