I am writing graffiti on your body. I am drawing the story of how hard we tried.
I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.
Stories cannot demolish frontiers, but they can punch holes in our mental walls, and through those holes we can get a glimpse of the other and sometimes even like what we see.
It’s really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
I’m not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.
Once you’ve invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story’s grown to around a half-million words and can’t be written as anything less than a trilogy.
I’ve read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.
For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.
If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.
I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I’ve always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation.
Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
I believe stories are very important to all performances. The life story of the performer shapes their work, and the life stories of the audience alter how they receive the work, what they read into the performer.
I’ve always liked working on stories that combine people who are relatable with something insane.
Don’t sell your story, just tell your story.
Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don’t think how you tell a story is fundamentally different.
Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren’t building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that.
Well, we knew that we wanted to tell a story that made bold choices, and one of those bold choices was meeting a storm trooper and seeing who this person was. That’s something that had never been done.
I’m a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn’t like to play myself.
Whoever tells the best story wins.