Ben Rhodes Quotes

I think that one of the things you have to do to become a storyteller is spend a lot of time reading stories.

I came up with a story and I wrote it.

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.

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.

I have always loved story - I escaped within it as a child, I read every day, I love figuring out the complex layers of an author's work.

I love to tell stories and this is my way of getting them down on paper.

I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.

I think of myself as a storyteller.

Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes.

I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

I wanted to be a story teller so badly.

To me, there is nothing higher than fiction. Nothing. It is fundamentally who I am. I am a teller of stories. For me, that's the only way I can make sense of the world, with all the dance that it involves.

Authors make stuff up. Let's not pretend it's any more magical than that.

I'm a fan of creative writing and telling stories.

I keep writing stories that I might want to bring to life one day.

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

I'm just a story teller.

You learn a lot, writing fiction.

As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.

To tell a good story and to illuminate the world: the two things are completely linked. That is the point. That is what I've always wanted to do.

I think that my passion for writing fantasy began at about the same time as my passion for reading fantasy.