Ian Rankin Quotes

I'm a total slave to a good story.

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

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

To be completely honest, I just like whatever tells a good story. Put me in whatever setting, scenario, genre. If you're telling a good story, it's great and it's fun to get caught up in.

The goal, first and foremost, is to tell a satisfying - entertaining - story.

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.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

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

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

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!

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.

In making up stories, as in reading stories, I could create a contained world in which an experience is shared in its entirety.

When you write stories linking reality to a big storyline, people relate to it better.

I tell a good story.

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.

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

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.

I love a really good storyline.

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