Jim Toomey Quotes

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it.

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.

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

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.

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

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

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

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

One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.

Sometimes my lyrics may describe a situation that happened to a friend. Other times, I create a story from the ground up.

And meanwhile, the storytellers like me and Anderson, Silverberg... we tell stories. People like them. They want to know how it comes out, they want to know what the ending is.

I always like to tell a story.

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

I think we think in terms of stories.

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

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point.

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

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs, writing about their lives, because it's difficult to conceive that there's a great imaginary life in which you can participate.

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!