“First and foremost, I consider myself a storyteller. And I'm endlessly fascinated with people, with what they do and why... and how they feel about it. Which means I'm interested in romance fiction. I was drawn to it, as both a reader and a writer, at the very beginning of my career. It's my kind of storytelling.” PeopleFeelsFirstsKindMeanRomanceFictionCareersReaderStorytellingFascinatedStoryteller Author:Debbie Macomber
“For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach up and pick it.” WorldStoriesFictionPicksStorytellerFiction Writers Book:The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Source: The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
“I don't write fiction but I do write narrative; I write memoirs that I treat like stories, so whenever I'm using somebody I actually know as a model, I am submitting them to the agenda of a storyteller, and I feel free to do what I want.” KnowsWantFeelsWritingStoriesFictionModelsTreatsMemoirNarrativeAgendasStoryteller Author:Vivian Gornick
“I'm a storyteller, and there's some genres I like. I don't think I'm ever going to do science fiction, but I want to do a musical one day. I want to tell stories, I don't really try to get boxed in by a specific genre.” ThinkingWantTryingStoriesFictionOne DayScience FictionMusicalGenreStoryteller Author:Spike Lee
“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 in something profound or symbolic, so much the better.” PeopleIfsTryingFictionLaughingCryDutyProfoundStorytellerOld FashionedSymbolicMaking People LaughSneakFiction WritersSneak In Author:W. P. Kinsella
“I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd like to tell it.” IfsMindFactsStoriesFictionStorytellerGood Story Author:Leanne Pooley
“Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of how much of this is your life. The story is a way you unravel your life from behind a mask.” ThinkingWayWritingKindStoriesBehindsFictionMaskLiarsBe KindStorytellerWriting FictionWeavers Author:Edwidge Danticat
“I find it only natural for a storyteller to be interested in storytelling and, for anyone who spends the better part of his or her life writing fiction, it is hardly surprising that the pleasures, worries, and mechanics of fiction-making should enter the work.” ShouldWritingNaturalPleasureFictionWorryStorytellingSurprisingStorytellerMechanicWriting Fiction Author:Norman Lock