I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.
If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
Remember, if you don't feel passionate about the characters and subject of your story, your readers won't either.
The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.
I always kind of think I don't have a style, just whatever seems to be appropriate for the story.
In a lot of cases, as in Tom and Nicole's case, the tabloids were about to break the story, so they said just let the news out. And they called organizations such as ours.
It's harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters.
When you do not have the dialogue to explain things, you will use everything to show and to tell the story. I think that this is what makes you believe that it is impeccable.
My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-story shack from the ground up that was awesome!
Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each other's presence.
When I started the 'Broken Empire' trilogy, I thought it was a short story, and I didn't know the beginning, middle, or end of even that.
The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then.
What is more important is finding the soul of the character, and making sure it fits well into this story. And that it be dramatic and interesting and captivating, because these people weren't entertainers, you know.
Yeah I'm telling real stories, but if you pick up a documentary on strippers, you're going to want to see some stripping, so we definitely got that in there.
The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen.
CNN is pretty consistently on the left, if you look at their choice of stories, what they play up. It's not what they say. It's what they highlight.
I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day.
Some people build houses, buildings. I don't. I build stories. ~ Ryan Mark, Author
I've been on stage plenty of times, and one of the things about being a stage actress is you have a 3-month run to revisit the story nightly and play it again.
The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.
I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
