Boring Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.

— Todd Solondz

I was motivated to write about violence because I believe it's not unusual. I see it as just a part of life, and I…

— Alice Sebold

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political…

— Isabel Allende

Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence -- helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.

— Warren Zevon

Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.

— Jeffery Deaver

I never set out to write literature; I set out to tell stories. And some of my work may be very raunchy and very…

— Wilbur Smith

I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like…

— Stephen Colbert

I try to write about realistic people doing realistic things. Or as close as I can get, given that I'm trying to write a…

— Nick Petrie

I like newspaper stories that are incomplete, that give me room to imagine the rest. It's no good to me reading about something that's…

— Peter Robinson

I'm a writer. I don't begin with some conceit in mind. I'm just trying to tell a good story.

— Liu Cixin

I've been trying to get away from physical violence; it's too easy; it doesn't satisfy me artistically to work with it. Dramatic violence is…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I'm trying to write stories that are interesting and enjoyable.

— Arthur Bradford