Prakash Raj Quotes

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.

I tell the stories that are of interest to me.

I'm a storyteller - that's my chamber, that's my box. I'm always tryin' to give you the best story from our side of the table that you could really relate to quick. I understand where I wanna be at, but sometimes the production takes me where I need to go.

It's all about letting the story take over.

Writing isn't about the process. It is about creating. The joy comes not from the process but from the creation.

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.

I prefer writing originals.

I started writing because I found I could spend more time in my own imagination by doing that than I could by reading.

In every novel, I write about something - a place, an experience, an emotion - with which I'm intimately familiar, but it's also crucial to me that I take on challenges. If write only inside my comfort zone, I'll suffocate.

I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.

I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

The opportunity to be a storyteller is the greatest thing in the world, and I feel so lucky and really love it.

Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

In my free time, I'd written 'Sammy's Hill' - it had started out as a play. I just did it for myself.

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

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.

I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.

I could always imagine more interesting places to be than where I was. And more interesting people than me being there. Eventually, this led to making up stories and writing things down.

With fiction, you can take something that bothers you, or that you don't have in clear focus, and you can put it under as much stress as you want. Really get underneath the skin. With nonfiction, you're restricted to what happened.

It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance.

What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.

I get suggestions all the time. People feel quite free at events or even on the street to tell me what they think I should be writing. What I've learned, though, is that this thing, this connection, has to be in place for me to be able to kind of launch into a world imaginatively.

I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked pretending, daydreaming and imagining.