The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.
Must I tell the story of my life again?
My whole life story is kind of a backhanded compliment.
Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.
In the original novel [ Anthem], the story unfolds in the mind of a single character. Maybe that's why Ayn Rand called the work a poem.
A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people.
I'd like to think that if you find your audience there are still opportunities there to go and tell an original story.
Imagine a new story for your life and start living it.
My real purpose in telling middle-school students stories was to practice telling stories. And I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey. " I told those stories many, many times. And the way I would justify it to the head teacher if he came in or to any parents who complained was, look, I'm telling these great stories because they're part of our cultural heritage. I did believe that.
I kind of have an interest in all history. And I suspect it comes from being Irish - we like stories, we like telling stories, which makes a lot of us lean towards being writers or actors or directors.
She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from the story, literature brought with it a kind of gentility for which she craved.
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself
I might do a film someday for the collection. I love designing sets and creating environments, in film school and for my own presentations. I love telling stories.
There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as stories, or songs, or images. Art delights, instructs, consoles. It educates our emotions.
In my short stories there's a lot of focus on people successfully and not successfully responding to some sorts of discomforts or instabilities.
When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike. . . A story is what it's like to be a human being-to be knocked down and to miraculously arise. Each one of us has arisen, awakened. We do rise.
I never get sick of writing my own stories because there's a certain comfort in knowing you will never run out of material. It's relaxing, actually, to write.
Write the story that only you can write.
[FBI] philosophy is "Go ahead and make the story you want to make, and hopefully we'll love it. " So that's that.
Don't put anything into a story that does not reveal character or advance the action.