Rick Yancey Quotes

There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.

Novels will remain my meat and potatoes, what sustain me imaginatively.

When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.

I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot of adventure stories and mystery books, and I have wonderful memories of my mom reading picture books aloud to me. I learned that words are powerful.

I've often thought I would like to try to write a conventional novel, but I just don't know enough about the real world to write one.

Character is always my driving force. And to tell a good story and to provide an entertaining read.

Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close to you, what you are told, what you have read, all mixed together into this kind of soup which, like any good soup, at the end you cannot really distinguish the ingredients.

The elegance of a really good screenplay, I admire it. I can't do it.

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.'

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

The problem with the screenplay is that it's not literature, and it's not a film. It's a very weird, technical kind of blueprint that will be absolutely transformed into something else that is not that, you know? Honestly, a screenplay is no literature.

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

As fiction writers, we are entertainers.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

There are people who say they want to write novels. They think, 'I'll learn my craft on the romance novel.' If you don't love the genre, it's going to show, and it's not going to be a good book.

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.

I think of my novels as entertainments.

I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily.

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

I read a lot of fiction.

A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form.

I'm a believer in using whatever works for fiction, but mostly, that's not life.