Brock Pierce Quotes

Stories aren't the icing on the cake; they are the cake!

I want to be a part of good stories. It's not about my role, but the overall story that counts.

It was always about the story rather than the character.

I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.

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

I'm first and foremost interested in the story, the characters.

I want to tell a story and shape it all the way through to the end.

If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.

Basically, all novelists should want to tell a story, and if they don't want to, they shouldn't be novelists. I think story-telling is important and underrated.

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

I couldn't run from that desire to tell stories, that desire to tell stories about us, and about the people I loved.

I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.

A short story is one idea; a novel is a whole soup of them.

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.

The writing is only ever the attractive thing about a part. And also if all the elements within the writing come together - the character and the structure and the narrative - if they are all there then you become excited.

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.

I don't care whether the story is real or fantastical. I tell the story that needs to be told.

I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going.

Whether you're writing a horror show or a James Bond film, I think what bubbles beneath is interesting characterization. The colors that emerge through storytelling is what a dramatist does. There's always got to be something bubbling underneath that will erupt at some point.

I want to be a part of the stories that need to be told.

I prefer to bring these to the service of story rather than to let them replace narrative.

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.

The villain drives the plot.