I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.
Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.
Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.
I am very lucky, I have a very tight group of friends and a very supportive family, and to this date no-one has ever sold a story on me.
There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.
The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.
I know a lot of people in the business recommend the many Story Structure seminars being offered here, but I point to them as the single biggest contributor to lousy scripts.
Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a story we tell.
Many have been with the show for years, and they have sources in the business, so we do know things, but until it is verified, we don't run with the story.
It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance.
Insecurity is a natural part of human nature, and there are times we feel our stories are not worth telling, so we turn to the people we admire for strength. If we dress like someone everyone thinks is cool, perhaps we'll be seen as cool.
I guarantee you that two directors that are any good can take the same story, change the name of the characters, change the name of the town, and make an entirely different picture.
If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.
I wish I had some interesting stories about living in L.A., but mostly I just do my work and then go home.
Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.
I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.
It's real easy for me to write a lot of stories. I just go and I live through something, and I go home and write about it. It's that quick.
I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.
You kind of hope that the events themselves are interesting. I think that's what you have to hope for, that on a broad level it's an interesting story.
These ancient stories in religion speak to our desire. But they move us toward hope.
No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it's the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope.
