Roger Ross Williams Quotes

I would spend my time telling stories or writing them.

Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.

The actual act of writing brings me such pleasure - to tell stories, to engage in cultural criticism, to reflect, to question, all of it is invigorating.

On the whole, stories don't write themselves.

The stories I create are never as awful as reality.

Ironically, writing a novel is not a way to sort out your confusion.

We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.

Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?

When I write a story, I just wanna tell you what's in my head. It can come from real life and then turn into fantasy, stuff just rhyming. And write about what you know. I just like to tell stories that have not been told or [told] from my perspective.

Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.

Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.

And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it themselves.

Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.

I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.

What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality.

I think when I write movies and plays and books and magazine articles, they're all storytelling, and reality is the common denominator that binds them.

I think the way you become a good storyteller is to read a lot of stories and evaluate them in your own mind.

The writing itself is the thing that generates stories for me.

...I can write my own stories and I can write myself in.

I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.

Writing stories, adopting other characters, making up fantastic stories and tales, this is a way of perhaps enhancing who I am. Writing stories takes a commonplace old life and makes it all somehow more interesting. And hopefully I can do that in a way that touches a lot of people in their lives, too.

The difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows. Fiction is pure joy - how sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction.

People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.

For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.

When you're writing fiction it's a heightened voice. You're trying to cast a spell, which isn't the same thing as trying to cast someone into it. You are creating a reality but it's a different sort of performance.