When I start to write, I see my stories as a kind of movie. For instance, I ask myself, "What kind of opening do I want for this book?"
You want the greatest trick for writing a novel? Here it is: imagine urgently whispering your story into one person's ear - and only one. This one visualization will clarify every word choice you make.
My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.
As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.
Our stories are what we have,” Our Good Mother says. “Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories have value. Do you understand?
Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.
My growth as an artist and a person has been so slow and gradual, it's hard to make a story out of it.
The movie [Miral] is not pro-Palestinian. It's about Palestinians. It's a Palestinian story, written by a Palestinian person. I don't know anybody else that could have done that
WikiLeaks is literally the worst place in the world to try and plant a false story.
I brought a lot of images of pieces I got from my grandmother, pieces I collected over time and then we met with a designer and we tried to morph all my inspirations into one story.
I collect jewelry for a story - so something I got on a trip or something I got from my family. You know it always needs to have a meaning for me.
I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.
Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little short story.
I'm finding now more and more that nudity is so rarely serves the story in any film.
I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.
I always had a good dexterity. The story in my family goes that at the age of 3 I could thread needles faster than anybody.
Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, revealing everything about yourself that is most private and probably most interesting for that very reason.
One thing we can probably agree on is that the truth, however we define it, is often hard to tell. It can be hard to tell the facts of the story, and it can be hard to tell its emotional truth too.
I don`t like reading scripts very much. I like it better for someone to just explain to me what it is about this story.
I couldn't be a one-woman show, since I wouldn't have anybody to bounce off from. Once you're out there, dribbling on, you have nobody to interrupt you. I love being part of a company, and telling a story.
Look, how many stories have I broken? Hundreds. How many have proved to be untrue? There isn't one.
Trace Adkins doesn't talk too much, but when he does he's got great stories. He's lived a great life.
I like to make movies the way people made movies in the '70s, where they lived and died with these stories, and cared about them, and went to war for them, and they all said something they wanted to say.
I don't really get attached to anything. I'm pretty brutal about cutting stuff. With each successful movie, I've discovered anything that's not connected to the immediate story is going to be cut out of it.
In my work, there is a lot of storytelling. The storytelling is not a new thing. Back in the [Howard] Thurston days, the [Harry] Houdini days, the [Harry] Blackstone days, it was stories, but the stories were, "We're going to the Egyptian temples, and we're going to vanish the Prince of Thebes," and, "On my last trip to the Orient ..."
