Maud Welzen Quotes

I like to read fiction, and I particularly enjoy reading young adult fiction. But I also read children's books, adult books, current authors, and classics, but I like fiction the most.

I will literally read anything, regardless of genre, fiction or non-fiction, as long as it's well written.

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

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

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

I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.

I like westerns, fantasy, sci-fi, graphic novels, thrillers, and I try to avoid the word 'genre' altogether. A good book is a good book.

I love short stories, but I've never had the impulse to write one. Same for ghost stories.

'Annapurna' is a sort of novel. It's a novel, but a true novel.

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

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.

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

My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.

Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive.

I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers.

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them.

Yes, I don't read books for entertainment.

When I give myself over to a good novel, I surrender to the truths fashioned from one writer's heart, mind and soul. I do not waste a nanosecond wondering whether what I'm reading 'really happened.'

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

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

I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I'm loving it.

In my downtime, you'll mostly find me curled up with a book. I love reading biographies. My favourites are those of Dalai Lama, Osama Bin Laden, and Einstein.

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.