Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don't use one piece of technology that I used when I started directing.
Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.
That's the problem with revealing true truths. They make people uncomfortable. The truth should be grand and exotic, but mostly it isn't. Mostly it's uncomfortable.
Infinite possibilities exist within the art of storytelling. To me, it is nothing less than the magic of creation.
A story is inside of us all. Each word and sentence is alive and we grace the pages to keep it from dying.
There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don...
By small and simple sentences, great books come to pass.
I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living.
Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.
Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable.
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...
There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
By God, if women had written stories,As clerks had within here oratories,They would have written of men more wickednessThan all the mark of Adam may redress.
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.
In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.
There is nothing like been consumed by the blazing fire of untold story.
Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.
The principle I always go on in writing a novel is to think of the characters in terms of actors in a play. I say to myself, if a big name were playing this part, and if he found that after a strong f...
I can change the story. I am the story.
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...