I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.
I think everyone is introduced to the Peter Pan story when they're very young. Everyone has read the book and watched the Disney film and all that.
I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.
The difficulty with film is you always have to consign a story to being a certain length, whereas with a book you don't have budget constraints; you can cast it yourself.
An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.
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.
Our life is a blank book and we are the authors......... Write and shape your story as much as the mind can imagine it
But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.
I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.
I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They take more plotting and real character development.
I'd been writing stories since I was a child. I wrote little books for my mom and bound them myself with needle and thread. Mostly, they were about my pets.
Although I'm not actually embarrassed by this, I tend not to read books that have awesome movies made from them, regardless of how well or badly the movie represented the actual written story.
If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself.
The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.
And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.
I have tread all three of his books and they held me spellbound interesting story. Its fiction based on fact...mmm I like!
People say everybody has a book inside them, so why not make your life a great story?
Give me a life time by the fire, with a book in my hand, nothing more and I will tell you a great story.
For English assignments I was constantly coming up with these strange adventure stories... But I actually wanted to be an artist, or maybe work in the comic book industry.
