There is an incredible film, 42. It's the incredible story of Jackie Robinson. I have extolled the virtues of this movie to everyone I meet. I've given quotes to everyone I talk to.
Some after-the-fact storytelling is inevitable, and, in fact, very good and useful. But then we want always to be able to enrich the stories, or maybe change the stories with a fresh infusion of specificity.
In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen.
Good stories are not written. They are rewritten.
Harold and Maude' was a seminal movie for me because it's not only a beautiful love story, but it's also about the moment when misfits find each other.
The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.
When we stop believing in the gods we can start believing in their stories.
There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there to be a competition at all.
I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on the argument or the story.
Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from.
I always wanted to create a project that would allow me to think about cross cultural relationships and hybridization but did not want to use my personal story or standard tropes of multiculturalism.
I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.
I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good 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.
So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.
Don't let them tell us stories
A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken
I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker. '
In general, short stories are less read than before, they're less published than before and, not surprisingly, they're less taught than before.
The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.