I have such a rich fantasy life, I can’t help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.
There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.
I like stories with lots of psychology.
Getting on stage is a bonus, that’s my therapy, that’s when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.
If i were to lose my memories, I would rely on music. There is so much of my story embedded in each.
I don’t call magazines and let them know about things so they can write stories.
That is why most great love stories are tragedies.
I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.
You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.
A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his day and generation-may that be? Why, the degenerate fellow might as well have been a fiddler!
I tend to write about my anxieties – it’s what I’m afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
On one tour, I was collecting stories about pet monkeys. You’d be surprised how many people have stories about monkeys. The problem is, most monkey stories end tragically.
Every so often my life will feel like a story. It doesn’t have to be a big thing; in fact, most often, it’s just the opposite.
I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.
I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I’m telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it.
I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.
I love writing. I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing.
I never start a section of the story without knowing how it will end. I also consciously try to shape the story as though it were a movie.
I can’t recall a story that played out exactly as I’d expected it to. That’s one of the thrills of journalism – being surprised, and learning new stuff, but it also poses the biggest challenge to a writer’s character.
The story of the eighties will be the story of the Reagan administration and the many men and women who served in it, some of whom are already out on parole.