When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.
I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.
IN THE END, THE JOURNEY OF THE STORY BEGINS
Don't resist the urge to burn down the stronghold, kill off the main love interest or otherwise foul up the lives of your characters.
It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
Human beings across every culture I know about require such stories, stories with cool winds and wood smoke. They speak to something deep within us, the capacity to conceptualize, objectify and find p...
The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.
There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
Were the stories we told each other true? Who knows? At the best of times, a story is a slippery thing. Perhaps that was why it changed with each telling. Or is that the nature of all stories, the rea...
With grace and beauty, feel.
I have the heart of an artist and the soul of a writer.
Art is everywhere.
Creativity is nature. Nature is creativity.
I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.
Love that Literature.
Life is the stuff of miracles.
Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.
A great story can change the world.
Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.
Old stories sometimes slid out of her like lamp oil or light, stories containing details oblique and nearly incomprehensible to me or to anyone who has never known that world.
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