Lauren DeStefano Quotes

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.

I don't care whether the story is real or fantastical. I tell the story that needs to be told.

Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.

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.

I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mild cautionary notes, but they're not moral. They don't impart any Judeo-Christian ethic of any kind.

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

To me, I'm a storyteller.

I've tried to tell a story. For me, it is the best one.

I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.

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 like to think of myself as a storyteller.

In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.

I always like to tell a story.

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

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.

I'm just writing a story that I want to read.

I think of myself as a storyteller.

I see myself as a story teller.

Fiction is the best way I know how to think something through.

I am a story teller and I take each story very seriously.

I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.

Novels are so interior and idiosyncratic and such a solitary process.