A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.
Who am I? I am the spine that the mountains hang upon! I am the tears that the rivers cry! I am the lungs that breathe the wind! I am the wolf that kills the stag, the hawk that kills the mouse, the s...
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But we [writers] are crucial. That is what I hope you have learned. We listen for and collect and share stories. Without stories there is no nation and no religion and no culture. Without stories of b...
Doesn't the telling of something always become a story?
Here, there isn't much but stories and rain. And a fella can get tired of the rain.
I really do feel like I was born to write and tell stories.
The story became a cloud, and the cloud a sheet of rain, and rain fell throughout the empire.
Every good story needs a good, bad and lost soul. A people to fight for, an item to turn the tide of battle, an enigmatic character, a motivator/mentor, and an unlikely reluctant hero.
I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there.
All good writing is persuasive writing; persuading the reader to buy what you're selling, to side with you, to believe the tales you tell.
My goal is not to have everlasting fame, it is simply to write the stories that are asking me to write them and to share them with the people that want to hear them.
Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable—the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of s...
What he told himself on those sea-soaked nights...Others joined in and it was discovered that every light had a story-no, every light a story. And the flashes themselves were the stories going out ov...
Every story is an act of trust between a writer and a reader: each story, in the end, is social. Whatever a writer sets down can help or harm a community of which he or she is a part. When I write I c...
I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.
I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what couldI tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimati...
If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a .
Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.
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