Karen Traviss Quotes

When I was a kid, I was always going to bed creating a story, and that was the birth of filmmaking for me. I would like going to the dream-state by telling the story to someone else in my mind. That was my imaginary friend; it was an imaginary audience listening to my story.

I don't want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller.

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

Part of a writer's job is just spacing out, looking into the air and imagining things.

A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.

He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.

Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind.

I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.

I certainly knew from an early age... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads.

I wanted always to be a storyteller of the fullest expression.

I know what it's like to be genuinely intrigued and compelled by a story and to have a sense that there's an adventure to be had and a film to be conjured.

I guess I'm just inspired to tell stories.

I've sort of always been obsessed with telling stories and making things up.

My life isn't very racy or exciting so I make things up, tell stories. I like telling stories.

The more ways you can tell a story and paint a picture, the better it is.

When you read something, it's a movie in your mind and such a personal experience. What we're trying to do is to bring a consensus version of that to life and make as many people happy as we can.

To me, storytelling is a mystery. Especially when you're directing.

There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.

I take inspiration from my life but only twenty per cent is real the rest is all made up.

Be it a video game, comic book, or cheque book, the question always is, 'What story do you have to tell?'

I sometimes imagine a great writer as a sort of God-surrogate: the writer is doing his or her human-best to emulate what God might think of is, if God was inclined to observe some human beings and present their activities in the form of a narrative.

It is at least worth arguing that there is a modicum of the creative novelist in all of us, and that this absorption with how men get out of difficulties, single-handedly and alone if possible, is the stuff of which we weave the warp and woof of our own better dramatic imaginings.

To me, writing is fun. It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story.

I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.

At the end of the day, the job is to tell the story that you promised to tell and do it in the most entertaining and perhaps surprising way you can think of.