David Eddings Quotes

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

To me the most important thing is a good story, though I know how cliche that sounds.

In my books I try to tell a good story, not give messages.

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 want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well.

I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.

People aren't coming to me looking for political essays or polemic - they're looking for a rattling good story.

I'm a total slave to a good story.

Any fictional story will take things from real events.

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

Fiction is about telling a good story, first and foremost. But of course, everything I'm interested in or angry about leaks into my writing, from art to violence against women.

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

To be completely honest, I just like whatever tells a good story. Put me in whatever setting, scenario, genre. If you're telling a good story, it's great and it's fun to get caught up in.

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

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

It is in your DNA to love a good story. You know, neat tales with heroes and villains and conflicts to resolve. A good story pushes our buttons, is exciting and memorable.

A well-written novel, the most immersive of all forms of storytelling, should command your full attention and belief.

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

People want good stories.

In making up stories, as in reading stories, I could create a contained world in which an experience is shared in its entirety.

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

I feel like I'm a professional storyteller, really. A lot of people say 'a truth teller,' and, if the writing supports it, that's what your aim is: to try and present people with a series of truths, and then they can make up their mind about those and whether they have any real credence or weight.

I tell a good story.

Fiction is organized gossip.