Marc Platt Quotes

I really love storytelling.

I've always been fascinated with storytelling.

I came into this business to create characters that moved people and told stories.

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.

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 simply love writing good stories; that's my passion.

I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

People love stories. They need stories.

I think my love is storytelling. No matter what it is, it's storytelling. And so whatever the medium is, what's right for the story, I enjoy doing it.

I always had an interest in telling stories.

I love telling people's stories.

I guess I've always just been naturally inclined to tell stories.

I love all the characters I write.

I am really interested in storytelling in general - nothing is off-limits!

What I would love is for people to see some of the stories I want to tell.

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and where are they? They seem to have as much or more vitality and complexity as the people around you.

Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.

Even if I never sold another book, I'd keep writing, because the stories are here, in my head. Stories that just need to be told. I love watching a plot unfold, and feeling the surprise when the unexpected happens.

I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them.

I suppose it's possible that a writer would have feeling for his characters, but I can't see how, because writing is such a meticulous, intricate, technical business. I wish I could say that I love my characters and that frequently they take over the book and run away with the plot and so on. But they don't exist.

I just want to tell a good story, so I always ask myself, 'Are these people real to me?'

One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.

I love storytelling so for me to get behind a story and get in there early in its infancy and kind of develop it in the early stages was something I really wanted to be a part of.

I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.