1,265 Quotes About Storytelling

Writing is like breathing for my soul.

Love that Literature.

That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.

While what I write is always largely consistent with the records that remain I freely admit that where historical fact proves a barrier to invention, I simply move a detail a little one way or another.

I'm finally coming to terms with the unalloyed insanity of being a writer. Now that's coming out.

Plot comes from the mind but the characters come from the heart!

You will never write like your favorite author, unless god hates you or something.

The point of stories is not that they are objectively true, but that the soul of the story is truer than reality. Those who mock fiction do so because they fear truth.

Of course, the writer can impose control; It's just a really shitty idea. Writing controlled fiction is called "plotting." Buckling your seatbelt and letting the story take over, however... that is called "storytelling." Storytelling is as natural as breathing; plotting is the literary version of artificial respiration.