Steven Erikson Quotes

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.

I'm really into the idea of telling stories. Everyone needs stories. Everyone needs to escape every once in a while.

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.

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.'

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.

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

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

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.

I love fiction, you know? I find it fascinating. So when film really does go into fictional places, that's the most exciting for me. And when the fiction is about the person rather than about the place, that's even more exciting.

Literary novelists who have a strong handle on plot are often characterized as good vacation reads because they manage to transport you elsewhere, away from the petty facts of ordinary life.

Things happen to all of us. The writer's job is to get you interested.

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

All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.

I can be so blown away by story lines.

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

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.

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

Fiction, even when it's grim and hard, is fun.

Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you.

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

Fiction is organized gossip.

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.

My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.