What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other.
The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes. Finish the short story, print it out, then put it in a drawer and write other things. When yo...
An event without a good presentation is like a pizza without cheese.
Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.
The only way to live several lives in one lifespan is to write stories.
...have always been known for their storytelling. It appears to be the supreme expression of their spirit. Perhaps they know that, without a story, there could be no nation, no culture, no civilizatio...
Without desire how is it possible to make a story?
Many more have died of attempting love than victory, and countless numbers hate love more than war. Honor has often been the dear prize awarded to the killers of lovers. The epics of war have always a...
Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience.
I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.
If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
It was better to tell such stories close to the river than in a drawing room. Words accumulate indoors, trapped by walls and ceilings. The weight of what has been said can lie heavily on what might ye...
No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have a story; though some avant-garde directors have tried to dispense with the latter item, you'll f...
She couldn't disappoint the whole village. There were no wallscreens here, no newsfeeds or satellites bands, and touring soccer teams were no doubt few and far between. (...), that made stories a valu...
Storytelling was the most honored of all talents, for it benefited everyone.
The present is never tidy, or certain, or reasonable, and those who try to make it so once it becomes the past succeed only in making it seem implausible.
This is the squalid, or moving, part of the story, and the scene changes. The people change, too. I'm still around, but from here on in, for reasons I'm not at liberty to disclose, I've disguised myse...
One doesn't intentionally to alter the truth, just enhance it and make it more memorable.
You can fix anything but a blank page.
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