Danielle Trussoni Quotes

A baby writer should take inspiration from her predecessors but also find ways to tell her own stories in her own way.

Style is like voice, it grows organically from the truth of one's own life experience. Not in terms of chapters, per se, but in terms of stories. It is the story itself that creates an inherent structure.

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that's really it. In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing.

I think the most important thing when you're telling a story is to just tell the story as best as you possibly can.

I think the story is my form.

I love to write. I used to be a math teacher. And I like the idea that other people could write about the same subjects, but no one would write it just the way I do. It's very individual: a child could write the same story as somebody else, but it wouldn't come out the same.

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.

I try to make statements that aren't broad because that doesn't make for good writing. I don't get commentary as my job, because I'm not very good at that. The way I do it is by writing songs, and I have to be small; I have to make the stories a bit personal.

I want young readers to know that to tell their own story is the most important thing they'll ever do.

Everybody - every single person - has a story. Find yours and tell it in your voice.

Each day I feel a little differently; some times I try to write something that's fictitious and then there's other times where I try to write something that's true.

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.

I prefer writing originals.

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.

My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices until I find something that works.

Every kid has a story to tell!

I find it an easy way into writing pieces is to think what the character's voice is like, and start from there.

I'm here to get the story on to the page. It would be good to catch your attention, and I have to make you want to read on, and I suppose I prefer you don't actually think about the 'how' at all - the writing technique, the 'style', or even who it is that's putting this together.

I have no particular reader in mind, but a passionate desire to tell an honest, moving story.

I'm much more comfortable speaking through my characters' voices than my own.

Robert Ludlum, all of them, write the absolute best they can. You can't tone it down. You just do what you do, and if it comes out literary, so be it.

And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about being influenced by someone else's voice.