Research is always the best part. As we dug deeper into the history and mythology behind each of the hallows, we discovered more and more stories – some of them deserving of novels in themselves.
Villains often more the story along while the heros react to the villains, so the villain becomes the engine of the story.
All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.
Why ruin a good story with the truth?
I don’t like to meet the actor and have a lot of conferences and talk about their sub-life and their off-screen life and their back stories and all that nonsense, because it never means anything.
I’m generally not a social dramatist or comedy writer. My interests have always been more in psychological stories or personal relations and comic ideas.
Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.
A story doesn’t live until it is imagined in someone’s mind.
The number 1 thing that I don’t want to see in a story is when characters exist simply to be proven wrong.
People see in stories what they’re looking for, my young friend.
Every man is a hero of his own story.
It’s actually a rather romantic and dramatic story – one I would eagerly tell you, except for the fact that I recently forgot it, based on it being far too long and having not enough decapitations.
The hero is never the star of the story.
Happy endings are just stories that haven’t finished yet.
We’re all just big kids. That’s all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy of the fairy tales and the stories.
It’s so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.
Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.
Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted, Their heads being turned with praise and flattery; And that is why their lovers are afraid To tell them a plain story.
Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.
But stories that live longest Are sung above the glass, And Parnell loved his country And Parnell loved his lass.