Quotes About Fiction

I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil.

I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd like to tell it.

To be completely honest, I just like whatever tells a good story. Put me in whatever setting, scenario, genre. If you're telling a good story, it's great and it's fun to get caught up in.

Good job on Percy Jackson I read all of them 8 times and have listened 42 times and still not bored Thanks.

More minions!" he shouted. "Come to me!" That couldn't be good. Another round of giant crocs and we'd be dead. Why don't we get minions? I complained to Horus, but he didn't answer.

Somethings were meant to be and somethings were just meant to be good stories

Escaping into the fantasy of intellectual investigation or narrative story telling makes me feel hopeful. That too is a fiction, but one that makes me feel good sometimes.

I think that a good movie creates its own world, and that world needn't refer to anything that's real. If it's consistent, if it's entertaining, if it's interesting, it justifies its being there.

I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs. - Elinor

I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good at it.

When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is not a very good one.

A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.

The good guy only gets the girl in a soppy way.

Never tell a story because it is true: tell it because it is a good story.

Anything with a good story and characters I think would be great.

Also, as an author, character has always been what I'm most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although those are good things too.

Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script writing. You can write dialogue!

Don't get me wrong, hard and soft fantasy stories can both be good. But you need to know which camp you're in. I'm into realism. I'm a hard fantasy guy.

Good-bye to the lies of the poets. [Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.]

Good books are irrefutable, and bad books refute themselves.

I'd hire the devil himself as a writer if he gave me a good story.

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

It's no sin to tell a good story.