In honesty, there are probably a lot of stories that can be told with Batman. I like the idea of him growing older and he can't quite do it as much anymore.
As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.
Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.
The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.
Whichever character I'm using and wherever I am in my mind dictates what kind of story I'm going to tell.
In a world of full of manipulation, half-truths and lies, the conspiracy theory is often a safer bet than the official story.
Our successful stories die with us. If you are lucky enough, you go into the pages of history books where only few are interested to dig about you.
All I had, originally, were pages of Nolan's dialogue. I think his character serves the story in a nice way. He's a Greek chorus for the goings-on in the Hamptons.
I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.
Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.
For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story.
Usually when I read something, first of all I'm looking for the story and then when I reread it, I'm sort of checking every part of it to see if every scene is necessary.
My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my tutor.
When you mimic everyone, sometimes authority figures really don't appreciate it which is not an original story. And pretty much every comedian has some tale of that.
Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs.
Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.
I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.
I have not lost any of my crazy, fearless, raw, soulful, eclectic side and I plan on continuing to tell universal stories in an unforgettable way.
If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.
I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.
