All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?
There are stories you build and there are stories you construct; then there are the stories that you hack out of rock removing all the things that are not the story.
I rewrite my books until they're mostly memorized so that's a lot of rewrites, a lot of time spent with my stories.
Lookit, I've done it their way this far and now it's my turn. I'm my own handler. Any questions? Ask me. . . There's not going to be any more handler stories because I'm the handler. . . I'm Doctor Spin.
In the end, we'll all become stories.
I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural.
You want to have a song that people will listen to and go, 'Oh, yeah! That reminds me of something in my life,' or, 'something I'm currently going through,' or maybe something happens later and you hear the song and go, 'Wow! That really was telling a story that I can relate to now. ' That's my hope.
The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story.
There have been many times when we have not run stories because we cannot get it verified.
For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World.
True enjoy stories never ever have endings.
You have to be in love with your story. . . It's the love of the light; the time of day; of watching the moment unravel.
There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.
The story, from beginning to end, I found again in a heart of a friend.
I want to do film and TV. I want to make good stories. I want to write; I want to be more involved.
I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.
But also there are all the famous stories about the songs that have been rejected, but then went on to become hits.
I have my own story, and I love my story, but I know I can't tell it alone, not now. Because stories have centers, but they don't have edges. No boundaries.
It's always very important to me to try to create a story that feels unpredictable. You can't jump ahead and see what's coming, but at the end, when you've watched the whole thing, it all feels inevitable.
Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.