Michael Paterniti Quotes

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

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do.

I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.

I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.

Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.

The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling.

Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you.

I do love storytelling.

As much as I love storytelling, I've always been drawn to talent.

I love writing dialogue - it's when I really lose myself in my work. I love reading it, too, when it's good and rings true.

Playing interesting characters makes me feel alive.

I feel that since I was a little, little person, I knew that one of my life goals was to tell stories and bring joy to people.

I realise that there's something about fantasy, whether it's written by the Grimm Brothers or J. K. Rowling or Thorne or J. M. Barrie, that it gets closer to the human experience than realism every could.

As human beings, it's good to build stories.

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

I like to make little movies or fake stories about something that happened in my life. I will make a movie in my mind that would translate the same feeling or emotion that I had in whatever just happened.

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

When I would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the story. I would be describing the story in sound, but my goal would be to make somebody else run their own movie.

I sometimes imagine a great writer as a sort of God-surrogate: the writer is doing his or her human-best to emulate what God might think of is, if God was inclined to observe some human beings and present their activities in the form of a narrative.

I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.

Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this sense of sharing something.

What interests me very much as a writer is the ability for writing to have our lives to be occupied so vividly by others. I think that's what we long for as writers.

Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written.

I don't think that digital technology will ever take away the humanity of storytelling, because storytelling is entirely, in and of itself, a wholly human concern.