Gareth Southgate Quotes

I'm going to make my own story for sure.

I think the most important thing when you're telling a story is to just tell the story as best as you possibly can.

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

I just want to be a good storyteller.

Everything I do is just an opportunity to tell a great story.

I want to be a part of the stories that need to be told.

Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.

I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.

Each book should be an entity unto itself, with its own structure, character, life, name.

I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.

Technique is of less interest than character and story.

I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

I always had an interest in telling stories.

It would appear that I just love writing many different stories.

You have to write your own story, your own graph and rhythm.

A lot of directors understand everything but the story.

We're constantly trying to find the best way to tell the stories that we want.

I am really interested in storytelling in general - nothing is off-limits!

To me, I'm a storyteller.

If we got writing assignments in English class to make up a story, that was when the glimmer of creativity popped out. That was way more interesting to me than writing down my life details.

I always do make a back story for myself, but I'm not sure how necessary it is. I just like to.

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

All the writing elements are the same. You need to tell a good story... You've got good characters... People think there's some dramatic difference between writing 'Little Bear' and the 'Hunger Games,' and as a writer, for me, there isn't.

I came up with a story and I wrote it.

I've tried to tell a story. For me, it is the best one.