I don’t feel famous and I didn’t want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.
It’s part of a cycle of stories I’m writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.
Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.
The great thing about a short story is that it doesn’t have to trawl through someone’s whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.
Stories are a different kind of true.
For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.
Everyone’s got a different story.
When people write to me with stories, they are never ones that work for me. There’s something mysterious about which ones catch you.
I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.
Life is like a B-picture script. It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I’d turn it down.
I write short stories, and I wrote a play.
I’d love to do some bedtime stories for kids or that kind of thing. But with the demands of the shooting schedule and balancing the demands of being a single mother, it’s a wonder you can squeeze in anything.
People are hungry for stories of faith. People are hungry for hope.
No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn’t yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.
I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn’t a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated.
I wouldn’t go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.
Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.
By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide.
A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More times than not, I will not give it to them.
There’s nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.