Marguerite Duras Quotes

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

The one thing that makes writing a better pastime than reading is that you can make things turn out the way you want in the end!

I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

I like to create characters and worlds, and there's nothing like telling your own stories.

All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.

I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.

I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.

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

At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

When I was young, I assumed that authors must have traveled the world or done exotic things in order to tell great stories.

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

I simply love writing good stories; that's my passion.

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.

I was so in love with books from as early as I remember that it seemed a natural step to want to create them. And so I just wanted to be a writer from a very young age. And I think that the lies were just a natural side effect of me wanting to tell stories and write them down.

I like being a storyteller. I'm bored with myself; I like to write about others. I have a lot of names in my songs: Karen, Margaret, Mary Kay. Even if it's about me, I want to put it through someone else. The music is the soundtrack to the story.

I certainly knew from an early age... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads.

Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.

When I set out to write 'Sanctus,' all I wanted to do was craft a piece of high quality entertainment.

Why do we write novels or make television about real things? It's the human condition and human suffering.