In the digital age of ‘overnight’ success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it’s true, but they don’t have any evidence that it is true!
Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.
I’m used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
Terrorism is based on two major pillars: One is injustice, and the other is a certainty of attitude, the notion that their version of the story is the correct one.
Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.
Why has Scandinavia been producing such good thrillers? Maybe because their filmmakers can’t afford millions for CGI and must rely on cheaper elements like, you know, stories and characters.
I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it’s mine. I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary fantasy, my mind begins to take over.
I’m a storyteller, not a prophet. I’m just interested in a good story.
A lot of sad stories in a row – that wears on you.
Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story – it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.
Writing is always a process of discovery – I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a constant interplay between the imagining and shaping of the story.
If you don’t have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you’ve got nothing.
No one is waiting for me. In this story, I’m the girl no one is waiting for.
I prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story.
All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.
It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that’s a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?
The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.
The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.
The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.