David E. Kelley Quotes

I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.

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

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.

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.

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

I always like to tell a story.

In my books I try to tell a good story, not give messages.

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point.

Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

I'm just writing a story that I want to read.

Ultimately, a director is a storyteller. I wanted to fortify that part of my life as a director, so I thought the best way to do that is to study and learn about the greatest stories ever written.

I'm very interested in storytelling and anything that plays with structure.

I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.

It's really, always, the story and the characters that come first, and the other things are kind of dealt with in time or, in fact, driven by the story.

I've always written about other artists, or I write my thoughts down, but I've never written a story.

I've always been passionate about the stories I want to tell.

Eventually, I just want to write wavy little short stories.

Fiction is organized gossip.

To me, I'm a storyteller.

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.

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 like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.