Hollywood is obsessed with police stories.
Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
Author’s Notes: This story starts with section 6. This is not a mistake. I have my own subtle reasoning. So, just read, and enjoy.
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.
If we have people with the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.
When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren’t told or books weren’t written, man would live like the beasts, only for the day.
Actually, the true story of a person’s life can never be written. It is beyond the power of literature. The full tale of any life would be both utterly boring and utterly unbelievable.
What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.
When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it’s full of mistakes and repetitions. It’s good to avoid that in literature, but still, a story should feel like a conversation. It’s not a lecture.
I need to tell a story. It’s an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later.
I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
I’ve been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story may be different but emotionally we are all the same.
If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.
A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration.
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.
I do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I’m writing post-colonial literature. I don’t know what I’m writing. That’s the business of professors and critics. My job is to tell a story, and that’s it.
My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.
When you can tell the story and it doesn’t bring up any pain, you know it is healed.