Steven Heighton Quotes

Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.

People still love a good story, and I don't think that will change.

I tell stories. That's what I do. I've always told stories.

I'm just a story teller.

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.

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

Whether it is the cavemen in the caves thousands of years ago, Shakespeare plays, television, movies and books, stories and characters take us on a journey. All I do is tell those stories without scripts and without actors.

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

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

I'm just a storyteller.

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!

Human beings need stories, and we're looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it's television, whether it's comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.

Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.

I like telling stories.

People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.

I really love storytelling.

Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"....they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

When I give myself over to a good novel, I surrender to the truths fashioned from one writer's heart, mind and soul. I do not waste a nanosecond wondering whether what I'm reading 'really happened.'

Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

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

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