Vikas Swarup Quotes

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

I don't want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller.

I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

I've always considered myself, at the end of the day, to be kind of a storyteller.

I want to be a storyteller - not only of the Latin experience but of people who want to be inspired.

I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.

I'm a storyteller. If I have that on my precis when I go, 'Storyteller,' I'm satisfied with that.

I love telling people's stories.

I never saw myself as much of a storyteller.

Creating is one thing; telling the story is one thing. I see myself more as a storyteller than a story creator.

I love telling stories, and I'm a born storyteller. That's what I do, and that's what I want to continue to do.

I don't see myself as an actor. I see myself as a storyteller.

I'm just a story teller.

I tell the stories that are of interest to me.

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 like to think of myself as a storyteller.

I think the only way you can become a writer is through honing your voice, creating your own voice.

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write.

I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

I'm a storyteller.

I love telling stories, whether I'm the human instrument that helps tell that story, or I'm the man behind the curtain.

Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.