Hopes Quote by R. A. Salvatore

I'm a professional. So before I published any novels, I'd always been writing stories.

— Jess Walter

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

— Fannie Hurst

I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me.

— Anthony Burgess

I never wanted to be a writer; I just had stories I needed to tell.

— Sefi Atta

I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books -…

— Anatoly Rybakov

I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it.

— Nathan Englander

I never wanted to be a writer initially. It was not my thing, but I was an avid reader.

— Dustin Lance Black

Nobody ever wrote a story for me. I told in every story what was really inside my gut, and it came out that way.…

— Jack Kirby

As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.

— Jay Asher

I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew that there…

— Chinua Achebe

I didn't want to sugarcoat anything. I wanted to make an honest story. Of course, to write a real autobiography, you've got to tell…

— Superstar Billy Graham

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

— Vikas Swarup