Victoria Aveyard Quotes

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

I'm writing for my ideal reader, for somebody who's willing to take the time, who's willing to get lost in a new world, who's willing to do their part. But then I have to do my part and give them a sound and a voice that they believe in enough to keep going.

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.

I want to earn a reader's capacity to be moved.

What I always do is go with the stories that put up the hair on the back of my neck or make me cry or make me laugh.

It's the writer's job to disarm the reader of his logic, to just make the reader feel.

I'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can.

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.

I can be so blown away by story lines.

I love character and voice, and my favourite books have been the ones in which I've become completely absorbed.

I tell stories. Because I believe you can do things that joke tellers can't do, and that is, bring your audience along.

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

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.

Once I opened a book, I felt compelled to finish it. I was drawn into a world, and I had to know what would happen, how it would end.

The novel space is a pure space. I'm nobody once I go into that room. I'm not gay, I'm not bald, I'm not Irish. I'm not anybody. I'm nobody. I'm the guy telling the story, and the only person that matters is the person reading that story, the target. It's to get that person to feel what I'm trying to dramatize.

People love stories. They need stories.

When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.

I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night. I want to stir the pulse, yes, but also to stir the heart. I hope 'The Woods' does that.

People want good stories.

People's imaginations are sort of there for the taking, I guess. If you tell the story right, you're going to hook them.

When people come into the theater, whether it's the screen or the stage, they've gotta be transported and transformed.

People just love stories.