I certainly did my best to bring the story [Anthem] to life in another medium.
I think kids love superheroes, and the more you can crowd into a story, the more excited they get.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
We are each in the middle of our own path. We do not know what will be at the end of our story.
Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.
I mean to say, whether a yarn is tall or small I like to hear it well told. I like to meet a man that can take in hand to tell a story and not make a balls of it while he's at it. I like to know where I am, do you know. Everything has a beginning and an end.
A commission and an original are two different things, and both have their virtues and vices. A commission is a bit more collaborative, in that you outline the story that you think should be told, and then you write it.
The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?
It is much easier to be flexible about where a story begins than it ever was for me to change my mind about where and how a story ended.
This story is about love, which means that it is also about hate.
A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers. Everyone takes what he wants or can from it and thus changes it to his measure. Some pick out parts and reject the rest, some strain the story through their mesh of prejudice, some paint it with their own delight. A story must have some points of contact with the reader to make him feel at home in it. Only then can he accept wonders.
The best scary movies have great humor in them and a great story.
My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.
It's important to tell the artist's story. It's their song! And it's always more fun to write together with the artist!
I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.
You could not tell a story like this. A story like this you could only feel.
Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.
State-controlled Associated Press: 'The gross domestic product declines 1% in the second quarter, better than expected. ' The bottom line is the economy is still shrinking! It's contracting. There's negative growth. One percent, big whoop, we're supposed to feel happy about this? The only thing that would make me happy about this is if I saw a story that said the government shrunk by 1%. Then we'd be making progress.
I am now working on the second WWI story and find the challenge marvelous.
One of the ways in which writers most show their inventiveness is in the things they tell us about how they write. Generally speaking, I don't like to make a plan before I've written a story. I find it kills the story - deadens it, makes it uninteresting. Unless I'm surprised by something in a story, the reader's not going to be surprised either.
