John le Carre Quotes

I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.

There's conflict in every story.

Fans want to see a story with characters, and they want to see a story.

I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.

Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.

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!

Basically, all novelists should want to tell a story, and if they don't want to, they shouldn't be novelists. I think story-telling is important and underrated.

Two dogs never agree about one bone.

… the simple answer is: land, land and land. No-one gives up land. Ever.

I write largely plot-driven stories.

The writing is only ever the attractive thing about a part. And also if all the elements within the writing come together - the character and the structure and the narrative - if they are all there then you become excited.

Myths are the prototype for all stories. When we write a story on our own it can't help but link up with all sorts of myths. Myths are like a reservoir containing every story there is.

It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.

Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.

Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.

The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the fictional process has been at work.

A good story's like a door, and you can go through it whenever you need to. After you've read it or seen it or heard it, you can still go back through it. Once it's yours, it's always yours.

But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.

The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it.

There is no story unless you've written it.

The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.

Whatever claim you use to gain attention, the advertisement should tell a story reasonably complete.

Ayame: This concludes my wonderful story. Kyo Sohma: You mean stupid!

If you have no conflict, you have no story. That's number one. That's a rule of novels.

But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.