Albert Camus Quotes

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

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

I like writing historical fiction.

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.

Stories are not explanations of the world we live in. Science does that, and math does that. Our obligation as fiction writers is to enhance the mysteries.

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

I just want to be a good storyteller.

A novel is not a rant.

I've always been fascinated with storytelling.

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

Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.

Literature is about telling stories.

I really feel the novel has certain conveniences about it and has something so fundamental about it you could almost say that as long as there is paper, there is going to be the novel.

In Italian, the word for novel is romanzo, "the romance." The English is "novel" - something new. Both of those elements, experimentation and love, are fundamental to the form.

There is a real connection between Philosopy and fiction.

I think storytelling is a thing of beauty, and also very difficult. It's a craft you have to continue to work at.

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

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

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

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

There are very few films that work like a novel.

I've always been sort of drawn to storytelling, and I was always very playful growing up.

When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may immediately seem to be a lie, but it's like an impressionistic painting - you see the light and the color better than you would with a photo-realistic piece.