Victoria Aveyard Quotes

I'm of the Samuel Goldwyn school of writing: If you need to send a message, call Western Union. Any messages people take away from my books are the ones they see in them.

I don't think I could write a straight drama.

Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader improved.

I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me.

I'm going to try to tell stories and let each tale skate its own way into dark or light territory as the needs of the story steer me.

It's all about letting the story take over.

I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.

Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at the same time, I want precision. And in order to be precise about stuff, you have to get personal. Symbolism is very boring.

I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns.

I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mild cautionary notes, but they're not moral. They don't impart any Judeo-Christian ethic of any kind.

That's what I like most about writing fiction over journalism: the easy metaphors!

I purposely adopted a style in my storytelling wherein I don't have to explain everything or why the story is moving in a particular way.

People think you have to go through something to write about it, and you absolutely do not. You can write about, like, a shoe. It's a story.

Writing is so fun precisely because if you take out the right adjective, the readers can decide what kind of book is in their hands. Suspension of disbelief should not be mandatory in contemporary writing.

Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.

I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

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

I never really approach any project or story thinking of themes first or what a certain character 'represents.' Maybe other writers do, but for me, it just starts with the characters and a certain emotion I want to convey. It usually isn't until I get deeper into a book and look back a bit that I start to see the themes, etc.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't want to be judgmental in the fiction.

I'm much more interested in allowing a story to happen, and people find whatever meaning is in there.

I become my characters, and then try to allow events in the story to take their own course. I try not to play God, but to let them work out their own destiny.

I like shows or films or books that have messages but don't beat people over the head with them.

I've tried to tell a story. For me, it is the best one.