Jamie Johnson Quotes

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

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

I think the most important thing when you're telling a story is to just tell the story as best as you possibly can.

I've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling.

In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.

I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily.

I don't believe that anything's totally invented... If you're completely inventing a story, there wouldn't be an urge to tell it.

It turned out I really didn't like journalism. I wanted to make up stories, not cover real events.

Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.

I see myself as a story teller.

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

Somebody once said to me, 'If you want to be understood, don't write fiction.'

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

I always had an interest in telling stories.

My books aren't autobiographical.

I just want to be a good storyteller.

I've always been fascinated with storytelling.

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.

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

I was never a good journalist, because I would make things up. A lot of people frowned on that, which is why I ended up in fiction.

I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place.

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

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

Storytelling is what lights my fire.

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.