Alice Englert Quotes

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

I guess I'm just inspired to tell stories.

Getting to share the stories in my head with other people and have them enjoy those stories, and having them come to see my characters as real. That's so cool.

I sort of like writing about weird characters, I guess.

Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out.

Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together on the deepest level. When I write a novel, I go into such depths.

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.

I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.

I wanted always to be a storyteller of the fullest expression.

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.

To tell a good story and to illuminate the world: the two things are completely linked. That is the point. That is what I've always wanted to do.

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them.

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

Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

I just feel so lucky to tell stories and make up stories and share them with people.

Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader improved.

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

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