David Brin Quotes

I can be so blown away by story lines.

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

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

People want good stories.

Things happen to all of us. The writer's job is to get you interested.

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

A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.

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

We're moved by emotions and characters and stories. We love that.

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.

Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive.

Stories have a special way of putting us inside the people, inside the boots of the soldiers. You're absorbed in a way a documentary or nonfiction can't do for you.

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.

I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, stories that raise moral questions but come up with very few moral answers, stories that emotionally touch readers through the characters.

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.

I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.

All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.

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.

Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

Readers want a story, not a pattern. It's the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars.

I'm drawn to a good story, really, as I hope most people are. For me, it's the story that's going to stay with you eventually, not necessarily the genre. I go to watch a film because of the story, not because it was a Western or a comedy.

It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost - not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions.

People just love stories.