Claire Messud Quotes

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

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

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

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

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.

Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you.

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.

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

I'm a total slave to a good story.

I want to be a part of stories.

Any fictional story will take things from real events.

I never set out to write literature; I set out to tell stories. And some of my work may be very raunchy and very bloodthirsty - but life, for me, is a violent thing.

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

My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.

As far as what readers can expect with 'Maybe Someday,' I'm not the type of writer who writes to educate or inform my readers. I simply write to entertain them.

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

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

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.

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

I always like to tell a story.

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

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