Fiction is organized gossip.
I'm a fan of great storytelling.
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.
I think I'm always drawn to a good story.
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.
I'm really into the idea of telling stories. Everyone needs stories. Everyone needs to escape every once in a while.
When I set out to write 'Sanctus,' all I wanted to do was craft a piece of high quality entertainment.
People want good stories.
I'm a fan of creative writing and telling stories.
If we got writing assignments in English class to make up a story, that was when the glimmer of creativity popped out. That was way more interesting to me than writing down my life details.
Any fictional story will take things from real events.
Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.
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.
You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.
Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive.
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.
Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.
Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.
Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.
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.
No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.
Fiction is about telling a good story, first and foremost. But of course, everything I'm interested in or angry about leaks into my writing, from art to violence against women.
I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not. I can't choose any one scene and say, 'Oh, this is exactly what happened to me!' I just use little snippets of things as a starting point!
In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.
I always like to tell a story.
Catherine Gaskin was an Irish–Australian romance novelist.
