tell – catsignal

Quotable 472

You don’t become a novelist to become a spinner of entertaining lies: you become a novelist so you can tell the truth.
– Hilary Mantel

One of the first things I tell my classes is, “If you want to write, keep a low overhead.”
– Grace Paley

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
– Tom Clancy

To write you have to have stories you want to tell, you have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.
– Tracy Kidder

another blood draw –
telling myself
I deserve chocolate

I don’t fire up the prose. I just tell it straight and don’t fool around with it.
– Raymond Carver

Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
– John Steinbeck

There’s no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story.
– Tobias Wolff

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
– June Jordan

The only way to write a book, I’m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That’s how you write a book.
– Anne Enright