TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.
Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.
I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of the bottom. And I climbed the stairs, one by one.
I think everyone is introduced to the Peter Pan story when they're very young. Everyone has read the book and watched the Disney film and all that.
Being in the public eye, I have certainly gone through the tabloid situation where they come out with stories that are not true. I don't read or pay attention to it.
I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.
When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.
Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one.
To Europe she was America. To America she was the gateway to the earth. But to tell the story of New York would be to write a social history of the world.
I enjoy scenes in films, which do not have the pressure of the story so much... and it flows. I've tried to go in that direction.
Run your purpose on the toes of your feet before people can type your success stories with the fingers of their hands.
My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature.
Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.
All I'm saying is that there is more to life than the main story. Check out the notes in the margins because maybe they're even more important.
I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on our gay stories.
The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.
Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot.
I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.'
We question ourselves through others by way of stories, advice, and gestures; and we receive our answers form listening to others reactions
Writers are like actors too. For every story we create, we must get under the skin of the characters and role play with our writing.
One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.
