I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I have never had an idea that could withstand a hundred thousand words, or even ten thousand words of rubber meeting the road.
I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.
I am primarily a loner. I don’t go to clubs. I don’t hang out with people. I don’t know many people. It’s just the way it ended up. It’s not a sob story; it’s fine for me.
Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.
The Story of My Life is drinking cups of tea, eating coco pops and playing Playstation.
Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you’re playing a tender love story that’s set in a coffee shop or whether you’re in ‘The Avengers,’ which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.
Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.
Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.
I never finished any of my early stories. They were all beginnings, an endless number of beginnings.
It was a story called ‘The Hero’ which I sold to Galaxy magazine in 1970, for $94.
I could have written a story about a well-adjusted family. Ned Stark comes down to King’s Landing and takes over and solves all their problems. Would that have been as exciting?
I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories – I love the short story.
Remember Old Nan’s stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you.
The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
You know when you’re telling these little stories? Here’s a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!
Every love story is a ghost story.
So, yo, then, man, what’s your story?
Kafka’s evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive; this is why we tend to call even his weirdest stories nightmarish rather than surreal.