I believe that everyone has a story, and it is important that we encourage all students to tell theirs.
After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship.
I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.
Words become sentences, twisted, difficult/The story weaves itself, always noisiest at night/As herds of words won't stop. . . " Wildebeest of Words/Breathe In
My goal is not to have everlasting fame, it is simply to write the stories that are asking me to write them and to share them with the people that want to hear them.
I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is the story than separate and independent creatures.
My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.
Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump.
Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge.
We do not see things as they are, nor do we even see them as we are, but only as we believe our story to have been.
For me, nudity and strong language have never been huge loadbearing elements of how I like to tell a story. Graphic images certainly are.
We constantly run lines together before every show too, and then there's a long, traditionally long, story to tell the audience every show. Today, we're doing it twice.
In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.
Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.
'Beneath the Piano' by The Devil Makes Three somehow reminds me of an old Johnny Cash song. The song is a lot of fun and tells a story.
You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.
An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.
I'm trying to tell a story, to entertain. I try and do something that might just take people's minds off their troubles.
The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man.
I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie.
