Usually in stories there are big problems in the beginning or couples are pulling away, there's a lot of bitterness.
As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.
Lifting the Stanley Cup for the first time. There's nothing like it. It's the greatest story. In my era, they used to say you couldn't be a superstar without winning one. I remember thinking when I lifted it: "Now they can't say that about me. "
Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.
funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself
And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.
[Wyatt Earp and the Holy Grail] it is a big story, which is why there are two more films coming, which will bring the total length of the series to 3 hours.
There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about.
I don't like gossip stories. Facts are okay. But when gossips begin making items, that's something else again.
I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?
I guess that's the story of life: what you most fear never happens, but what you most yearn for never happens either. This is the difference between life and fiction. I suppose it's a good trade-off. But I'm not sure.
It is important that artists are not outside the equation, we don't stand on the sidelines. Artists are part of the story of a response, we cannot stand aside and let others make the response.
The only reason to buy a paper book any longer is to own it and cherish it and remember it and tell a story about it.
But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.
I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves.
Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.
I'm a plotter. A thinker, a note-maker, a mapper and a flow-charter. I'm up for using any device that will teach me more about the people I'm writing about and their story.
I like movies about people and movies with characters; that's what I'm drawn to as a person who likes to create these characters within the story, but I like it all, really.
The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life.
