Pete Holmes Quotes

I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'

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

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

'Lagoon' is an ambitious novel.

I'm hoping to get started on a new novel.

We all know that I love writing Gambit.

I am really excited by the form of short fiction.

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

I love rewriting because that is where and how you discover the story. It's like you have this skeleton, and you get to put flesh on it and hair and clothes and really wonderful jewelry.

Storytelling is what lights my fire.

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

The move to creating stories was a natural progression for me, but the most pivotal time was probably in 6th grade: That year, a friend introduced me to the stories of Ray Bradbury, and a student teacher introduced me to creative writing.

There was a time when I read a script and I just got excited about the possibilities.

I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.

In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.

Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.

TV is where a writer can write his novel.

I'm just interested in serialization in fiction. I'm fascinated by it. I love the 19th-century novels. I'm interested in ways to bring that back to fiction.

I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for 'The Namesake,' I felt that it had to be a novel - it couldn't work as a story.

I want to work with anyone who's passionate about telling a story. I obviously have a list of people I really love, but it's a really long list.

I love the idea of real-life experiences finding their way into fiction. I think that's really cool.

I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.

Take it from me: I really love making things up, which is why I write fiction for a living.

I wrote 'Airborn' after completing three books about bats. I loved my bats, but what a treat it was to write about humans again. They could eat food other than midges and mosquitoes, they wore clothing, they slept in beds - all this struck me as wonderfully novel.