41 Quotes About Telling-stories

Even if you're in the thick of revising another work, write something new. Something small. It's important to keep telling yourself stories.

Not only truth can set you free, but forgiveness as well.

Non tutti i racconti di Nuto si concludevano. Spesso rimanevano sospesi. Magari un giorno sarebbero continuati e prima o poi sarebbero finiti. I racconti sono fatti di storie. Le storie sono fatte di amori. [...] Con le storie si possono fare due cose, diceva: viverle o raccontarle, non è possibile che si vivano e si raccontino contemporaneamente, bisogna scegliere, se non sei tu a scegliere è la storia che sceglie per te.

When I started school in 1958 there were no books written by Aboriginals in the school system and everything about Native life was written by white people through their eyes.Now, Aboriginal writers can tell their stories. They have always been our narratives to tell, not others.

On a couple of occasions I've shocked myself. Pet Sematery was appalling when it first came out on to the page.

I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me.

I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.