Edwin Louis Cole Quotes

I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.

Literature, of course, is not a contest.

I'm always interested in storytelling and whatever form that comes in.

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

I am really interested in storytelling in general - nothing is off-limits!

I don't have anything to prove as a writer anymore. I write about Panera Bread or Red Lobster or Satan or Richard Ramirez or whatever comes to mind. I just write.

I'll take a certain concern of my own or a situation and try to frame it around a fictional story, but sometimes just straight-up autobiographical songs work well, and sometimes a story is better. I like stories. I like to hear them. I don't think there are enough of them in songs anymore.

I don't care whether the story is real or fantastical. I tell the story that needs to be told.

Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.

I like to write about things that don't reflect exactly on my life.

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 like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

I certainly knew from an early age... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads.

Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.

Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you.

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

As a small child, I could watch anything happen and tell a story, and it was funny.

The more ways you can tell a story and paint a picture, the better it is.

I'm not good at talking, but I can write a good song and tell a story.

If I feel like I haven't really tapped into the essence of the story when I do an assignment, I may revisit it on my own, and that's when I feel freer to add my imagination. But I think that if you feel imaginatively towards a subject, you really shouldn't do it in a journalistic context, because then you're just fabricating, and that's crazy.

Writing is so fun precisely because if you take out the right adjective, the readers can decide what kind of book is in their hands. Suspension of disbelief should not be mandatory in contemporary writing.