True Storytelling Quotes

In the end, it's about the reality. You want something that's believable in the performances; you want something that's believable in the storytelling, in the writing. You just want to connect to something that you feel is real.

People can hear my songs are coming from something real. I mean what I say; I'm not just writing to impress critics or young girls, or older girls. The way I talk is the way I write a song.

When you get to do something based on a true story, it always raises the level of excitement.

The telling of a good story, especially one that is real and true, is always exciting.

If a film is based on a true story and you don't use anyone's name, you can do what you like.

With 'Luke Cage,' we all, as a collective wanted to tell the truest story that we could but, at the same time, also be very true to the comic book genre.

When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.

I want to do a biopic as an actor. It's a thrill... I would love it if I am able to do a biopic.

Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.

Creative non-fiction is such a liberating genre because it allows the non-fiction writer, whether he or she be journalist or essayist, to use all of the techniques of the fiction writer and all of the ideas, creative approaches, that fiction writers get a chance to use, but they have to use it in a true story.

Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.

A memoir is not an autobiography. It's a true story told as a novel, using techniques of novelization. The author is allowed to compress events, combine characters, change names, change the sequence of events, just as if he's writing a novel. But it's got to be true.