It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.
Everyone was very deeply involved in the world of 'The Lord of the Rings'. From the wardrobe department to lighting, all were fascinated with the story. This is something that does not happen usually.
As an author, I breathe life into each and every character within the stories that I write. But it is the reader who gives them their souls.
I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
Such is the amazing power of stories to link us to our past and lead us all the way back to the present.
Everybody has their story - at some point you have to say, 'This is who I am: Now it's up to me to become what I want to be.'
Whatever they may say, your story is truly your own. You have a responsibility to it, the way a father has to a child
Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.
I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell stories.
A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.
I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.
How could she ever know that someone would pick her story up and carry it with him everywhere?
I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.
If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs you on to write.
Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.
I sing 'All Apologies' with my own lyrics. People want to sing along, but then, oops, they realize it's a different story.
What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web.
I'm very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well.
As an actor, there are many confusing factors that can make you take or not take a decision. It becomes difficult. Your first and last checkpoint should be the story. I always read a script as an audience.
Within these strangely specific conditions, everything is perfect. We are perfect.
