Bonnie Hunt Quotes

I think that one of the things you have to do to become a storyteller is spend a lot of time reading stories.

Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.

I wanted always to be a storyteller of the fullest expression.

I only have one job, and that's being a storyteller.

Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.

I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily.

I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.

I am a storyteller, and I take great pride in the storytelling and a great joy.

I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.

I always had an interest in telling stories.

I guess I'm just inspired to tell stories.

If you were to put me under one umbrella, call me a storyteller.

I'm a fan of creative writing and telling stories.

I had originally been looking at writing, including fiction.

Fiction is organized gossip.

If we got writing assignments in English class to make up a story, that was when the glimmer of creativity popped out. That was way more interesting to me than writing down my life details.

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.

A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

Our task as fiction writers isn't just to report something that didn't really happen. We have to give what we write a sense of reality. The tool of our tradition is language.

You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.

I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

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

Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.