Kathryn Lasky Quotes

To me the most important thing is a good story, though I know how cliche that sounds.

Fiction is about telling a good story, first and foremost. But of course, everything I'm interested in or angry about leaks into my writing, from art to violence against women.

I just want to tell great stories.

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.

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

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

A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it.

I'm just trying to create characters and tell stories.

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

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

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

I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

Writing is writing to me. I'm incapable of saying no to any writing job, so I've done everything - historical fiction, myths, fairy tales, anything that anybody expresses any interest in me writing, I'll write. It's the same reason I used to read as a child: I like going somewhere else and being someone else.

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

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

I think we all have a responsibility to tell good stories.

I think of myself as a storyteller.

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!

It's no sin to tell a good story.

When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing.

Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The story - and hence the extensive research that goes into each one of my books - is much more important than the words that I use to narrate it.

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

As a writer, I always try as hard as possible to get out of the way of the story, so maybe that's the most important thing my readers should know - I'm all about the story, not about the ego.

As a storyteller, you have the story that you tell, and you have the way you can tell it, and both are equally important.

I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.