We ask everybody to help us to change the world, but we are not talking about our planet Earth; we are talking about the world that each one of us creates within our mind. We are talking about the story that we create.
The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else’s story.
When we try to describe the truth with words, we distort it and it’s no longer truth – it’s our story. The story may be true for us, but that doesn’t mean it’s true for anyone else.
Perhaps you’re not finished with your story, and who knows if you’ll ever finish it or not. Honestly, it’s not that important.
I’ve done as many as 20 or 30 drafts of a story. Never less than 10 or 12 drafts.
My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.
When a reader finishes a wonderful story and lays it aside, he should have to pause for a minute and collect himself.
My life is making movies. I like storytelling, and I’ve got a lot of stories that are stored up in my head that I hope to get out before my time is up.
I am more of a visual person than a verbal person. For me, I think, the excitement is the fact that I found a way of telling the story as I want to tell it, in a medium that I could master.
Spoken word teaches that if you have the ability to express yourself and the courage to present those stories and opinions, you could be rewarded with a room full of your peers or your community who will listen.
Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.
No story ever really ends, and I think I know why.
The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world just because it tells me the story of Jesus.
The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed.
The human world is made of stories, not people.
I think we think in terms of stories.
I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.
Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well – and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.
In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it’s at the extreme end of their experience.
When you hire that first person, then you’re a boss. You’ve got performance reviews. You’ve got complaints about not making enough money. You’ve got people who are just going to sell your story to the tabloids.