Noah Hawley Quotes

Readers want a story, not a pattern. It's the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars.

The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love.

It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost - not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions.

I just have to trust that the story is going to shake out in such a way that's going to be palatable to readers.

You have to tell a good story first. If it's a good story, people will be interested. It doesn't matter about the content.

If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending.

Judgments and secrets are what make a good novel.

I can be so blown away by story lines.

I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, stories that raise moral questions but come up with very few moral answers, stories that emotionally touch readers through the characters.

I love good stories; you have to have a good plot - characters which intertwine with a good plot.

Good storytelling appeals to me - good writing.

The important thing is the storytelling and having a script that makes you feel you're living and breathing through the characters.

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

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.

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

The essence to me of all good drama is argument.

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

Things happen to all of us. The writer's job is to get you interested.

Audiences are always open to an interesting story.

A good story isn't preachy; a good story is always entertaining.

Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing's unbalanced, there's no reason to have a play. If Hamlet comes home from school, and his dad's not dead and asks him if he's had a good time, it's boring. But if something's unbalanced, it must be returned to order.

I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.

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

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.

As far as what readers can expect with 'Maybe Someday,' I'm not the type of writer who writes to educate or inform my readers. I simply write to entertain them.