Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Quotes

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

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

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

As a storyteller, you have the story that you tell, and you have the way you can tell it, and both are equally important.

I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them.

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

I'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully.

You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

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

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.

I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

The hardest thing to teach young writers is that it's wonderful to tell your truth. And that's what you should do. But it damn well better be beautiful.

Writing is writing to me. I'm incapable of saying no to any writing job, so I've done everything - historical fiction, myths, fairy tales, anything that anybody expresses any interest in me writing, I'll write. It's the same reason I used to read as a child: I like going somewhere else and being someone else.

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out.

To me, the most important thing is to tell a good story. If I can do that, I think that enlightenment, respect of nature, etc. follows.

Fiction is a report from the interior.

I think of myself as a storyteller.

The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.

I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.

I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.