Remember that writing things down makes them real; that it is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know; and, most of all, that even in our post-postmodern era, writing has a moral purpose. With twenty-six shapes arranged in varying patte...
Why are so many of us enspelled by myths and folk stories in this modern age? Why do we continue to tell the same old tales, over and over again? I think it's because these stories are not just fantasy. They're about real life. We've all encountered ...
Forgiveness. The ability to forgive oneself. Stop here for a few breaths and think about this because it is the key to making art, and very possibly the key to finding any semblance of happiness in life. Every time I have set out to translate the boo...
Frodo: I can't do this, Sam. Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want...
When I first read Lovecraft around 1971, and even more so when I began to read about his life, I immediately knew that I wanted to write horror stories. I had read Arthur Machen before I read Lovecraft, and I didn’t have that reaction at all. It wa...
But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
Men are scumbags until they prove they're women.
There is no greater power on this earth than story.
I eat stories like grapes.
No denial of the truth will ever invalidate it.
That could be a very sexy story.
We are out sisters' keepers.
Death is only frightening from the near side.
Nothing’s worse than a story without an end.
Work is part of school.
From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.
In Miss Catherine Middleton we have the faintest, intoxicating glimmer of a New Age Cinderella story.
For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.
Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.
The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.
