Everything I do in its essence is about helplessness. That's the story I want to tell all the time. It's the story I wanted to live - somebody who appears to be, or is, weak becoming stronger.
Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience.
Marriageability was the original title of The Harvest.
داستانها هرگز به پایان نمی رسند. راوی ست که معمولا صدایش را در نقطه ی جذاب و هنرمندانه قطع می کند؛ کلا همه اش همین است.
A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.
Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.
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...
But I am a storyteller, and that involves language, for me the English language, that wonderfully rich, complex, and ofttimes confusing tongue. When language is limited, I am thereby diminished, too.
But I have already told the beginning, so right now it's the middle. And Zeb is in the middle of the story about Zeb. He is in the middle of his own story.I am not in this part of the story; it hasn't...
I can change the story. I am the story.
Properly told, stories are able to operate on two levels. On the surface, they deal with involving a range of facts related to a given time and place, a local culture and a social group--and it is th...
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.
We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls...
If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the horror becomes nothing more than a tawdry parlor trick. All flash an...
Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.
All of our lives are a living, breathing story, and each heartbeat means a new page has been turned; chapters don't close, they continue.
What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other.
Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.
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