Michael Crichton Quotes

There ought to be some form of fiction provided to the public other than that provided by Congress.

The only thing that matters to me about my stories is that they're entertaining and they're funny. And I tend to get bored easily, so I generally throw something supernatural in. I would say they're humorous novels that have a supernatural bent, but that's as close as you're going to get to fitting them all in the same basket.

I'm thinking my next book should be set on a tropical island, which will obviously require days, even weeks of meticulous research, but I'm prepared to make that sacrifice. That's just the sort of dedicated writer I am.

I would say the reason that I've never written a novel is because I've never written a novel.

If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.

It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore.

If I ever write a book, it will be called 'Bottle Blonde.'

I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.

I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne out of curiosity, some investigation into the past.

I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.

I love writing both fiction and memoir. Both have unique challenges; bottom line, fiction is hard because you have to come up with the credible, twisty plot, and memoir is hard because you have to say something true and profound, albeit in a funny way.

I think of my novels as entertainments.

Novels will remain my meat and potatoes, what sustain me imaginatively.

All I want to do is write songs about funny characters I made up.

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.

I read a lot of fiction.

I adore anything Michael Alexis writes.

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

All of my novels are seeded in real life events, and 'The Wreckage' is no different.

Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.

I'd love to see more novels and short stories where the characters have their own folklore that isn't the Plot-Bearing Prophecy of Doom.

For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction, and especially novels, but I'm a writer... I write poetry and essays and criticism and I'd love to write a whole play, and sometimes I even write scripts.

I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.