Bonnie Hammer Quotes

I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily.

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

I was always writing. I've always been attracted to words and stories, communication.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

I write. This is what I do. My job is to sit down with my vocabulary, select words, and decide what order they should be placed in an attempt to keep someone's attention and perhaps provide them with a laugh or two along the way.

I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.

Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.

My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

The laws of literary creation are unique; they don't change, and they are the same for everyone everywhere. I mean that you can tell a story that covers three hours of human life or three centuries - it comes to the same thing. Each writer who creates something authentic in a natural way instinctively also creates the technique that suits him.

The opportunity to be a storyteller is the greatest thing in the world, and I feel so lucky and really love it.

Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too.

Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.

I love to write and to get to know the people who are listening.

I'm a writer and this is what I love to do.

The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.

I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.

How many times can you put together 26 different stories without running out?

I'm actually quite critical of the storytelling theme. I think all the storytellers are not storytellers.

I know I'm a storyteller at heart, and if there's a platform that needs stories, I'm going be there.

I'm a storyteller. If I have that on my precis when I go, 'Storyteller,' I'm satisfied with that.

When I got hurt, I wanted to develop my skills from a storytelling perspective, do the work, read books. Develop things. To be the storyteller for basketball, period.

Fiction writing and journalism, in my experience, are really excellent training grounds for each other.

Creating is one thing; telling the story is one thing. I see myself more as a storyteller than a story creator.

I don't want to lose an opportunity to tell an interesting story.

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.