I write the story as it comes to me - YA is my natural voice, not a conscious choice.
The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.
To just tell a story from beginning, middle and end doesn't motivate me that much.
Sometimes it's not just your favorite song. It's your untold story.
Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.
Studios, to cut through the clutter, want recognisable titles. But that does not excuse you, as a writer, from having an original story.
I'm not a lawyer, but I do know this: we need to protect our ability to tell controversial stories.
Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.
He. Does there have to be a he? It seems weak and unoriginal doesn’t it, for stories told by girls to always have a he?
Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.
For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.
You can't tell any kind of a story without having some kind of a theme, something to say between the lines.
Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends.
Everyone knows me and my wife's story. We didn't have sex until we got married.
Often what people don't say or leave out, tells the real story.
There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.
Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.
I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.
All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.
It's not given even to the greatest writers to tell someone else's story.
I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story.
