Kerry Greenwood Quotes

I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes.

I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.

I know what it's like to be genuinely intrigued and compelled by a story and to have a sense that there's an adventure to be had and a film to be conjured.

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.

It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.

I'm writing for my ideal reader, for somebody who's willing to take the time, who's willing to get lost in a new world, who's willing to do their part. But then I have to do my part and give them a sound and a voice that they believe in enough to keep going.

Kids ask me questions. You'd think after doing this for four years, I would have heard every single question anyone could think of to ask, but no, every time, they surprise me, they ask me something I never thought of before.

To begin with, I want to tell a good story, a story that people will listen to and that they'll think this is true, even if it is a story that might be defined as - as myth or legend or even fanciful.

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

I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.

As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing.

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

Just about every science whiz can tell you how he or she took apart the TV or the radio when they were kids just to see how it worked. To see what the world was made of. Well, when I was a kid, I took apart fairy tales to see how they worked. To see what the world was made of.

I don't think we'll ever lose the desire for people to tell stories or to hear stories or to be entrapped in a beautiful story.

I think we should be passionately curious about what we do.

People still love a good story, and I don't think that will change.

I've just always been very interested in story above all.

The desire to hear a story, and a story well told, triumphs over Internet, film and television sometimes.

I completely hold on to the idea that people are eager if not desperate to be told a good story.

A person without curiosity may as well be dead.

he's a story i want to know from page one

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

Storytelling is about listening in any media.