Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.
Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall.
I like movies, because it's kind of a combination of every art, it's like it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat.
I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.
When the world falls asleep, authors weave the stories that are called dreams.. and when authors dare to jot down.. that's called making dreams come true.
This is a story about survival. Letting go and learning to let in. Getting along and moving on. The truth about life. The things left unsaid...
Tell any grizzled old cutthroat a sob story about a double-cross and a broken heart and he'll eat right out of your hand.
My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.
So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen genius, your one story-writer: a thief.
Every character in a story, I thought when I had folded up the phone, has both a purpose and a secret purpose.
...stories don’t just make us matter to each other—maybe they’re also the only way to the infinite mattering he’d been after for so long.
My life will have been a succession of lives, as if I have had several lives, a multiplicity of stories and roles. I have not ceased to have changes of life.
Every small business has to become a publisher—a publisher of marketing messages and customer resources, and a publisher of stories.
You see, unlike most writers today, I do not use a computer. I write the old-fashioned way: on the walls of caves.
I was craving a chance at the lifelong fantasy, and I had that. That was a one-off thing. I was looking for an experience, Eric, not wanting to cultivate a habit.
Angel of Fire is about an ordinary boy to whom extraordinary things happen
And I won 'em back fair and square. So what are you going to do about it? Want to fight? Who wants the first bloody nose?
The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time and I will stab you with this ink quill.
The Cinderella story in reverse. I only wish there were ashes in the fireplace so I could order you to sweep them out.
The festivity had reached that apogee of joy when you face the happy fate of being crushed to death.
