Source: Demian (1919), p. 9. Prologue
“I wanted a different way in which to tell my stories.”
Tom Clancy (1947–2013) American author
2000s, GameSpy interview
Context: I wanted a different way in which to tell my stories. Coming up with concepts for computer games gives me another avenue of creative expression. It's not just me telling the story, it's me designing the idea for a story and letting the players write their own ending.
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer
Source: A Thousand Mornings
Amulya Malladi (1974) Indian writer
On not caring about what other people think about her writing in “An Interview with Amulya Malladi” http://jaggerylit.com/an-interview-with-amulya-malladi/ in Jaggery
“I found people were telling stories to themselves without knowing it.”
V.S. Pritchett (1900–1997) British writer and critic
As quoted in "V.S. Pritchett's Century" (1990) by Martin Amis; later included in Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions (1993) by Martin Amis, p. 272
Context: I found people were telling stories to themselves without knowing it. It seemed to me that people were living a sort of small sermon that they believed in, but at the same time it was a fairy tale. Selfish desires, along with one or two highly suspect elevated thoughts. They secretly regard themselves as works of art, valuable in themselves.
Jack Vance (1916–2013) American mystery and speculative fiction writer
Section 6 (p. 184)
Short fiction, Rumfuddle (1973)
