Tim Matheson Quotes

People just love stories.

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

I think we think in terms of stories.

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

When you write stories linking reality to a big storyline, people relate to it better.

I feel like I'm a professional storyteller, really. A lot of people say 'a truth teller,' and, if the writing supports it, that's what your aim is: to try and present people with a series of truths, and then they can make up their mind about those and whether they have any real credence or weight.

I never set out to write literature; I set out to tell stories. And some of my work may be very raunchy and very bloodthirsty - but life, for me, is a violent thing.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

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

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

And meanwhile, the storytellers like me and Anderson, Silverberg... we tell stories. People like them. They want to know how it comes out, they want to know what the ending is.

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

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

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

We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.

The way I express ideas is through the plot, Suspense is an important part of expressing an idea.

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.

When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing.

A well-written novel, the most immersive of all forms of storytelling, should command your full attention and belief.

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

Fiction is the best way I know how to think something through.

I'm drawn to a good story, really, as I hope most people are. For me, it's the story that's going to stay with you eventually, not necessarily the genre. I go to watch a film because of the story, not because it was a Western or a comedy.

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

'Junkhearts' is a great story.