There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.
Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.
I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.
All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.
It's not given even to the greatest writers to tell someone else's story.
I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story.
I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!
The fact that 'Astro Boy' appealed to me as a boy in America was proof that the story and character transcend cultural stereotypes.
I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
If it is properly done, the 'as told to' autobiography represents how the subject wants his story told.
The telling of stories creates the real world.
If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.
For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.
The real problem is arranging that experience in a way that tells a story, which is just incredible enough to be interesting, but credible enough to be believed.
Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.
I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.
That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes.
I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories.
All of us in the Ball family in South Carolina, from the time we're children, hear stories about our ancestors, the slave owners.
I'm attracted to stories that deal with the family and what it's like to be a member of that family, whether it's together or apart, given the pressures that are put on it by the outside world.
I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver.
