Peter Handke Quotes

I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.

Literature, of course, is not a contest.

I consider myself a writer, foremost - a nonfiction writer.

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

My job is to put words together and tell a story. If that doesn't work for you, it's not a war crime.

Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.

Sometimes journalists ask me, "What's the message?" There is no message. I think that fiction should not be trying to give messages. Just tell a story.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

I've always been a writer.

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

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author.

I like writing books. I really love words. I love to read.

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

I was always at heart a novelist and wanted to tell a bigger story, so I wanted to create people who told other kinds of truths than literal truths.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

I'm just a storyteller.

I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book.

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for a book.