Courses Quote by Michael Herr

Tell me a story then...keep me occupied." "A story?...What makes you think I can tell a story?" "Insight," said the king, "Go on.

— Megan Whalen Turner

The stories that I tell, the topics that I choose to write about, usually are suggested by something that I've done before.

— H. W. Brands

I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that…

— Bob Schieffer

I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.

— Nikki Giovanni

“I hear you're a writer,' said 2040..."What are you writing about?' Not liking to discuss my writing with strangers, I had been privately auditioning…

— Phoebe Damrosch

I think to tell a story, you have to be specific and you have to be detailed.

— Noah Kahan

Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or not.

— Michael Morpurgo

I've got a lot to say about my life, about what I went through in prison and about what my family went through.

— Boosie

I want to talk about the things that people don't think you're allowed to talk about.

— Karen Kilgariff

“Memoirs are often about difficult things in a person's life. In my situation, my story starts with about the stupidest, most immoral thing I've…

— Piper Kerman

I talk about jobs, I talk about our veterans being mistreated.

— Donald Trump

In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything in the…

— Lionel Shriver