With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.
History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.
It doesn't matter if it's black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much pleasure, and it's very good for cinema.
When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way.
Biblical movies need not sermonize, just be honest to the foundational story. As powerful as the message is for people of faith, it's really great storytelling.
Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.
I wanted to write a story about a future where everyone has a secret identity, in part because the Internet no longer exists.
I have never, ever, not once, met a writer who said he or she would never read a mystery or a story set in some imagined future.
There's nothing funny the first time about telling a story about getting beat up and it makes you leave high school.
The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.
I can't help but tell people of the greatest story ever told - God's love and our eternal life.
The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment.
It is tragic that some Christians have been so battered with stories of a prideful, vindictive God that they have fled from Jesus' fold.
I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me.
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
I'm very interested in soldier recovery projects and in Bradley Manning's story, the army intelligence officer who's being held as a detainee and is going to trial for crimes of treason.
I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.
It's all about creating a back story for the character and developing emotional responses that are true to life in relation to the character. It isn't necessary to live a tragic life to create from that place.
I draw inspiration from anything and everybody and that's what country music is to me... real life stories and real life emotions.
The things of Catholic life are never boring because we have such a rich tradition and so many stories to tell.
