Mark Helprin Quotes

We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting.

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

There is the great creative part of it. The writing is the best part.

Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it and it's working, I'm thrilled.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.

At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing.

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who had something meaningful to say.

Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness.

At the end of the day, I want to be known for my ability to create life from words.

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.

I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

I write and I read, and I write and read my way into and out of ideas and life. And that's what we do. That's what storytellers do.

The connective tissue between storytelling, advice, and comedy is passion.

I just want to be a good storyteller.