William Lashner Quotes

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

Human beings need stories, and we're looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it's television, whether it's comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.

I am a story teller and I take each story very seriously.

When I set out to write 'Sanctus,' all I wanted to do was craft a piece of high quality entertainment.

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

I'm not a great writer of literature. I'm an entertainer.

I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.

I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.

Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?

To me the most important thing is a good story, though I know how cliche that sounds.

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.

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

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

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

I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

Sometimes my lyrics may describe a situation that happened to a friend. Other times, I create a story from the ground up.

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

Novels will remain my meat and potatoes, what sustain me imaginatively.

Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it's a good starting place for me.

I think I'm always drawn to a good story.

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.