Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I think good art should always be entertaining, or at least give pleasure of some sort. And my chief goal as a writer has always been to tell a good story and give my readers a good time.

I think that you have to keep the reader front and centre if you're going to write something that people are going to love and be entertained by.

In the end, my reasons for moving down the timeline and introducing a new cast have more to do with keeping myself entertained, on the assumption that if I get bored, my readers are going to be even more bored.

The first thing that attracts me to any script is the writing. If I find myself becoming lost in a good yarn, then I feel certain that others will, too.

The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters.

Nothing beats a good part with good writers that you get to come back to year after year.

Cinema which is well-made, for any kind of audience, is worthy of being watched by just about anybody who would like to watch a good story being told.

You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.

I have never had a point in my life to make. I'm just trying to entertain the reader.

Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.

What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story.

There are many more good stories about Jaye Davidson.

As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers.

Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.

Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'.

A novel must work as a story because no one's going to get to the other themes if you don't entertain the reader. But I like to have another layer of meaning, although you can read the book on one level and not bother with that other layer.

It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.

When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too.

To be simple, I would say a story has to have a bit of narrative, if only "she says," and then enough of a creation of a different time and place to transport the reader.

I felt like 'Life' was a great show. It was really well-written.

The longer you work in this business [movie], the more you start to be able to see the carpentry. You can see where things are going, and it's harder to surprise you, as a reader

The goal for me is to pull in the reader and to have them ask questions.

I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.

You can get away with breaking all of the other rules at least once in a while, but you can't get away with breaking this one. Readers will accept almost anything from you if you don't make them feel they have wasted their time and money. Remember, you can bore readers in a lot of different ways. It doesn't necessarily take a dearth of action; too much action can get you the same result. Everything in writing, like in life, requires balance.