Simon Toyne Quotes

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

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.

I think the most important thing when you're telling a story is to just tell the story as best as you possibly can.

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

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

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

To me, the most important thing is to tell a good story. If I can do that, I think that enlightenment, respect of nature, etc. follows.

As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.

The way I express ideas is through the plot, Suspense is an important part of expressing an idea.

I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.

When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing.

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.

The goal, first and foremost, is to tell a satisfying - entertaining - story.

My stories include realistic fiction and fantasy.

It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost - not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions.

People want good stories.

Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you.

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.

Things happen to all of us. The writer's job is to get you interested.