Hector Tobar Quotes

People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't see themselves as storytellers.

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

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.

The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction.

Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily short stories, and primarily for myself.

The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and where are they? They seem to have as much or more vitality and complexity as the people around you.

He just kind of talks them through, and then I get the fun part cause I get to make up the stories.

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

I love storytelling so for me to get behind a story and get in there early in its infancy and kind of develop it in the early stages was something I really wanted to be a part of.

I love telling stories. Creating a character, a world, a whole universe out of nothing. That part I can't get enough of.

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 don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.

I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.

The celebrity sense of writers is something which is very tempting... But the enthusiasm comes from the fact that it's such a natural activity, storytelling.

I don't want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller.

I like going back and writing fiction.

I've always considered myself, at the end of the day, to be kind of a storyteller.

It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want.

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

I know I'm a storyteller at heart, and if there's a platform that needs stories, I'm going be there.

I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.

Anybody working on storytelling has my respect.

I came into this business to create characters that moved people and told stories.

To me, storytelling is a mystery. Especially when you're directing.

What I found so captivating about the idea of being a writer was having the ability to write down all these things I made up in my head so other people could see them.