William Lashner Quotes

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 can be so blown away by story lines.

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers.

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

I think a writer's first job is to entertain, even in novels: to tell a compelling story that pulls the reader along toward an end. At the same time, the best stories are character-driven.

Fiction, even when it's grim and hard, is fun.

Those Duffer Brothers really know how to tell a story, and I think it makes you want to watch. 'Stranger Things' is remarkably watchable.

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

People love storylines. They love them because at some point, the talent will get people emotionally invested.

You have to tell a super story that has some fantastical element, but the human element is what's going to keep people watching.

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

Stories have a special way of putting us inside the people, inside the boots of the soldiers. You're absorbed in a way a documentary or nonfiction can't do for you.

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

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

I know that when I watch TV, I want to be transformed and transported, not just by the characters that I grow to love over the hours and seasons of watching but also the world that it plants me into.

When I was a kid, I read books that made me laugh but also made me shiver in terror. I wanted to make books that made other people feel the same way.

We like drama. Even in our comedy, we like drama.

I like making stories and characters that people can relate to. I also like giving the audience a departure from whatever they're thinking about in their life and enjoying a show or a movie.

Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?

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

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.

Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.