I don't have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it's a good idea to be able to disappear into the story, so that the first thing the audience sees isn't you, but the part.
I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.
I want to share some insight into why someone would want to be a SEAL. A lot of us faced obstacles growing up. I didn't have any type of real nurturing as a kid. I hope people will relate to my story and go, 'Hey, if this guy can do it, so can I.
I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle I begin to grow timid and to fear my story will be too long. . . That is why the beginning of my stories is always very promising and looks as though I were starting on a novel, and the middle is huddled and timid, and the end is. . . like fireworks.
A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.
It's time to begin righting the story of your life.
If you have a story of grace, then you have a story of grace to tell.
No story is devoid of meaning. . . If you know how to look for it.
I'm interested in other animals too though. There's the slug in "Mollusks", and I wrote a story about bees and one about a cat which got thrown out a window by mistake, but those never made it into the collection.
The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling.
Life is like sex, baby - the more you put in, the more you get out. End of story.
Frankly, in order for us to have a healthier arts eco-system funders need to insulate their relationships with artists from the influence of moneyed interests, lobbying groups, and politics. The funders shouldn't have to parse their words, or say one thing to one group and another to another. One statement, freedom of expression, end of story.
Every real story is a never ending story.
If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
The story of your life is not your life; it's your story.
The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world just because it tells me the story of Jesus.
Everybody's got a story that could break your heart.
Wherever I live, I shall feel homesick for Tibet. I often think I can still hear the cries of wild geese and cranes and the beating of their wings as they fly over Lhasa in the clear, cold moonlight. My heartfelt wish is that my story may create some understanding for a people whose will to live in peace and freedom has won so little sympathy from an indifferent world.
If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.
Do you want this to be a love story?