The difference between real life and a story is that life has , while a story must have . The former is not always apparent, while the latter always has to be, before the end.
Don't worry about meaning. If a story's any good, it can't help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means.
A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.
Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the story is fantastic and I can be a part of it somehow. That's what I look for.
My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
Writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary steps towards a novel. Stories just don't often make up a writer's main body of work, and that's not because they don't see the market for it.
I'm so happy that we're finally hearing the stories and voices of women who make America. We do what we see, not what we're told, so an incomplete story of this country damages everyone.
There's something really unique about 'Orphan Black' is that it has a lot of female leads, so it's about a lot of women's stories, but it's not women's stories in terms of trying to find a guy or keep a guy; it's about entirely other things.
interest is a stranger .
The unknown is always interesting.
The study of music was a family interest.
Life is good. Or at least, it's always interesting.
I'm interested in astrology and astronomy.
I'm interested in films, in directing.
Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.
The money doesn't interest me. I'm not enjoying MotoGP, and I'm retiring.
I'm interested in music that happens now and that relates to our lives now.
You need to suffer to be interesting.
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All social animals, including people, live under constant pressure from two competing interests: protecting themselves from others and aligning themselves with others. When these two interests are balanced, the result is dynamic social homeostasis.
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