Michael Koryta Quotes

For 'So Cold the River,' I'm actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar for 'The Fighter,' and who also wrote '8 Mile,' which I think is a terrific screenplay. The chance to work with Scott is a tremendous pleasure and I'm learning a lot.

Michael Koryta

• Learning
• Chance
• Working

I've never really found inspiration for story ideas in the news, but I'd say it certainly affects our lives in so many ways. I would say that certainly the stories of the day appear in the work - I just have never gone so far as to say, well, this particular event could influence a plot of an entire book.

Michael Koryta

• Inspiration
• Stories
• Influence

Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that was very fresh for me as a reader.

Michael Koryta

• Look
• Crime
• Horror

I think if you looked at the kind of ebb and flow of supernatural fiction and horror fiction, it does seem to be more popular in times when were hammered over the head daily with threats from all angles, very real threats.

Michael Koryta

• Popular
• Daily
• Fiction

I think pressure can be an incentive toward improvement, and while I'm not denying that I feel some, I will also stress that it is self-inflicted and hopefully can be channeled in a healthy way.

Michael Koryta

• Stress
• Healthy
• Pressure

You have only so many chances to tell stories. I didn't want to be forever wedded to one form of storytelling when there are so many out there.

Michael Koryta

• Stories
• Chances
• Storytelling

'Envy the Night' was my first stand alone, the first book I'd written in the third person and I loved the feel of that, and it was different but it was also the same. 'So Cold the River,' I knew, was going to be really different, and that's why I thought about doing it as a novella under a pseudonym, because I didn't want to damage my career.

Michael Koryta

• Different
• Career
• Night

I started writing as soon as I started reading.

Michael Koryta

• Writing
• Reading
• Started

What I love is the writing, it's not having written. I like the process of it.

Michael Koryta

• Writing
• Process
• I Like

I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says that King isn't an influence is either lying or being foolish.

Michael Koryta

• King
• Influence
• Foolish