John Berger Quotes

When you write stories linking reality to a big storyline, people relate to it better.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

A well-written novel, the most immersive of all forms of storytelling, should command your full attention and belief.

It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost - not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions.

Any fictional story will take things from real events.

When I give myself over to a good novel, I surrender to the truths fashioned from one writer's heart, mind and soul. I do not waste a nanosecond wondering whether what I'm reading 'really happened.'

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

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

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

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

People want good stories.

In making up stories, as in reading stories, I could create a contained world in which an experience is shared in its entirety.

People aren't coming to me looking for political essays or polemic - they're looking for a rattling good story.

To write a story is to create a world of your own.

I'm a total slave to a good story.

I never set out to write literature; I set out to tell stories. And some of my work may be very raunchy and very bloodthirsty - but life, for me, is a violent thing.

Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive.

As far as what readers can expect with 'Maybe Someday,' I'm not the type of writer who writes to educate or inform my readers. I simply write to entertain them.

I can be so blown away by story lines.

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

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.

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

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.