Colleen Hoover Quotes

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

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

People want good stories.

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

A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.

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.

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.

I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get people to pay attention to a book and pick up information along the way.

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 can be so blown away by story lines.

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.

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.

We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I'm a total slave to a good story.

Fiction is organized gossip.

Any fictional story will take things from real events.