Suzanne Vega Quotes

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.

Novels give you the opportunity to create a whole world. Because you create people, you make them talk... You decide who they are, whether they live or die. It's the closest thing to feeling like a god that you can come to.

I love telling stories. Creating a character, a world, a whole universe out of nothing. That part I can't get enough of.

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life.

I've just always been very interested in story above all.

In real life, writers tend to be quite boring, but in our books, we're having exciting adventures all the time.

I think in most cases, when you're writing a song, you're just making up a little story, and you're not really thinking about making a point one way or another about it. You're just coming up with a little scenario and seeing it through, and that's it.

To write a story is to create a world of your own.

I like to create characters and worlds, and there's nothing like telling your own stories.

Any fictional story will take things from real events.

To tell a good story and to illuminate the world: the two things are completely linked. That is the point. That is what I've always wanted to do.

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

Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.

One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.

There's nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world.

I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

I like inventing things when I write rather than autobiography.

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

I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.

I feel as if someone is going to come along, feel my collar and say: 'Do you really think you can get people to read books you've made up about people that don't exist?'

People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs, writing about their lives, because it's difficult to conceive that there's a great imaginary life in which you can participate.

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

I like telling stories.