Richard Hughes Quotes

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

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

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

I think I'm always drawn to a good story.

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

Both types of books - fiction and nonfiction - are a search for story. As a writer and a reader, there's nothing I crave more than a good story!

A well-written novel, the most immersive of all forms of storytelling, should command your full attention and belief.

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

Fiction is the best way I know how to think something through.

I am a story teller and I take each story very seriously.

People want good stories.

In making up stories, as in reading stories, I could create a contained world in which an experience is shared in its entirety.

People aren't coming to me looking for political essays or polemic - they're looking for a rattling good story.

I'm a total slave to a good story.

Fiction is organized gossip.

Any fictional story will take things from real events.

I never set out to write literature; I set out to tell stories. And some of my work may be very raunchy and very bloodthirsty - but life, for me, is a violent thing.

I don't care whether the story is real or fantastical. I tell the story that needs to be told.

As far as what readers can expect with 'Maybe Someday,' I'm not the type of writer who writes to educate or inform my readers. I simply write to entertain them.

To me the most important thing is a good story, though I know how cliche that sounds.

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.

A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.

I've tried to tell a story. For me, it is the best one.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.