Love is a power greater than death, just like the songs and stories told.
Sometimes. . . it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little short story.
I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.
My goal was just to tell the unlikely story in a way that would feel as convincing as possible.
Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.
The story is everything, so it always begins with a story. Research is a kind of scaffolding built underneath the story as I go along. My enjoyment level varies, but in general, I'm writing about topics I find interesting, so I can't gripe too much.
I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.
Every story you tell is your own story.
Each song, you're telling a story and acting.
If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.
I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, "I will tell you a story," and then he passes the hat.
The universe is not made up of atoms; it’s made up of tiny stories.
Now suppose that the clue experiences that can correct the illusion become for some reason increasingly scarce – perhaps because the dominant story itself brings about their elimination! Then the illusion might go on for a very long time, might have to result in real catastrophe, before anyone realizes anything is wrong.
It may have taken nine years, and a whole lot of wrong turns along the way, but their story felt complete at last. Because, finally, she was his.
Oh,Sara. It is like a story. " "It is a story. . . everything is a story. You are a story-I am a story. Miss Minchin is a story.
Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story
In 'Labor Day Hurricane, 1935,' Douglas Trevor vividly recreates a historical event. While that is the only story in A THIN TEAR IN THE FABRIC OF SPACE in the historical past, many of the other stories juxtapose fact-both historical and scientific-with narration to an engaging effect, one that distinguishes the voice of this new writer.
If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.
I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.
I know when a story is finished when there is not a single thing more I can think to do to it. And since I know at the start what the last line will be, I know when I've reached that point as logically as I can that it's finished. As for the rewriting-it's not foolproof, of course, but if you're honest about having thought of every possibility and you still come back to what you have, what more can you do?
