Daniel Pinkwater Quotes

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.

I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon.

I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.

No matter how wonderful the story, it has to move on something, and that is language. The words that I use, the pace, the rhythm and cadences all need to be there. If they're not there, the story is like a boat that just sits there and doesn't move on the ocean.

I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.

I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?

Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

A sports writer is a stylist of some kind. He is trying to convey mood and character and emotion.

I intentionally approached each story in 'Killing and Dying' in a different way, and that includes the writing process.

Writing can be fun. I think the challenge is to convey interesting things in accessible ways, and that's what I aim to do in books.

I like stories, and I really like words. So I like stories that rely on dialogue.

I do love storytelling.

The story is not in the plot but in the telling.

Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.

A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.

You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or the care of the construction the difference between art and life.

I have also led you astray by talking of technique as if it were something that could be separated from the rest of the story. Technique can't operate at all, of course, except on believable material.

As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together.

All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine.

Prose is all about embellishing and describing.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

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