Adam Schlesinger Quotes

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

Sometimes my lyrics may describe a situation that happened to a friend. Other times, I create a story from the ground up.

Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.

I am a story teller and I take each story very seriously.

Everything I do is just an opportunity to tell a great story.

Any fictional story will take things from real events.

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

I think the most important thing when you're telling a story is to just tell the story as best as you possibly can.

Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

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

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

I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.

I'm first and foremost interested in the story, the characters.

I always like to tell a story.

Novels will remain my meat and potatoes, what sustain me imaginatively.

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.

Each book should be an entity unto itself, with its own structure, character, life, name.

I think we all have a responsibility to tell good stories.

Both types of books - fiction and nonfiction - are a search for story. As a writer and a reader, there's nothing I crave more than a good story!

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.

Basically, all novelists should want to tell a story, and if they don't want to, they shouldn't be novelists. I think story-telling is important and underrated.

I see myself as a story teller.

I'm always looking for a story.