Agendas Quote by Vivian Gornick

I'm a storyteller. I'm always willing to serve the story, a story I believe in, in whatever way is necessary. If I need to…

— Danai Gurira

I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to.

— Fay Weldon

I am an old-fashioned storyteller. I try to make people laugh and cry. A fiction writer's duty is to entertain. If you can sneak…

— W. P. Kinsella

I've got a particular way of writing novels, and that carries over into the way I write comics and games, too. I'm a news…

— Karen Traviss

I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it.

— Joan Larkin

I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.

— Michael Morpurgo

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

— Vikas Swarup

I don't write non-fiction because I get bored. Some of my writing is autobiographical, but not the way readers imagine. I use my memory…

— Sefi Atta

I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up the story,…

— Emily Susan Rapp

Like most writers, I just create because I have a story to tell, really.

— Tom Stoppard

I make non-fiction partly because I'm not that good of a writer. My talent, if I have any, is in balancing, capturing and directing…

— Robert Greene

My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am…

— William Trevor