How I work is that I write a story I’d like to read. Then you fly to Paris or Sydney and the interviewers talk about the greater significance of your work.
That’s the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else’s worst.
The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts...
A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
What’s important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can never change. But the more times you tell it, the more changes will occur. A story is a living thing; it moves and shifts.
I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself.
You are the director of your own life story. Don’t cast idiots or people will walk out during your 2nd act.
That MySpace is the story of the year. Everyone but my mother is on it.
I’m curious by individuals that embrace half a story so they can justify how incomplete they feel about their own self worth.
Lovers never want to say “I love you” at the same moment. Hence all the love stories.
Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.
Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life.
Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.
Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.
Every life has a love story, even though the beloved may be imaginary, or a cat.
I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.
If you write a story based on a real person, you’re trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.
What more can life hold, than to know that because of your story, somebody out there has decided to read again!
There’s got to be something you want to tell and that’s the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in order to create the story, but you have to love some sort of nugget of what you’re telling to be a filmmaker.