Unconventional Stories Quotes

I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.

People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens.

I'm really inspired by stories I didn't know about.

I tend to write about people on the edge who are pushing things out from the edge but who are not necessarily big-ticket items.

The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.

Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional.

I can actually get involved in getting stories off the ground that no one would ask me to be in because I'm the wrong age, the wrong sex, the wrong nationality, or whatever. I've found it quite exhilarating to have that freedom to tell the stories that aren't just about middle-aged white English guys.

New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures.

Throughout my career, when I have been rejected, there was sometimes subtext, and it was this: People will not read your work because these are not universal stories.