In particular, I argue that in both evolution and creation we have rival religious responses to a crisis of faith-rival stories of origins, rival judgments about he meaning of human life, rival sets of moral dictates, and above all what theologians call rival eschatologies-pictures of the future and of what lies ahead for humankind.
Writing a novel is always complicated, it's not like you snap your fingers and go, 'Ah, I know what I'll write'. For me, a lot of the time, I have to write and as I write, I learn about the story.
Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.
"Tabernacle" was probably the easiest song I'd ever wrote because all I really had to do was rhyme the words since the whole story, front to back, was already in my head. All I needed to do was verbalize it, and if it didn't have to rhyme I could've just freestyled it because I already knew what I wanted to say.
One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is suggested by the nature of the crop. Marijuana can be grown almost anywhere, with little difficulty. It might not be easily marketable by major corporations. Tobacco is quite another story.
It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.
Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.
Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.
I think it's really healing to see movies that are based on true stories. It builds so much more compassion and empathy.
I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could.
Once I had started, I discovered the secret pleasure of writing a novel. It's such an immersive, deep commitment. With short stories, you're continually having to start again from scratch, but with a novel you only need one good idea every few years.
As I walk back to the school on my own, I realise I'm crying. So I go back to the stories I've read about the five and I try to make sense of their lives because in making sense of theirs, I may understand mine.
I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on radio.
My father is an actor, and I used to go on set to visit him. I saw the stories he was telling and said: 'That's what I want to do. ' I was always in awe whenever I went to the movies or when I watched television.
Tell me the truth about death. I don't know what it is. We have them, then they are gone but they stay in our minds. Their stories are part of us as long as we live and as long as we tell them or write them down.
It's all about this abstract entity called the story. It's all about the best way to tell the story, and to make a movie about the issues that this story is about. Filmmaking is storytelling, for me.
Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?
You have to want to write and like to write. Sit down at that desk or machine or laptop and tell stories.
Felipe and I, as we discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-to-belly success story.
The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going to tell you the truth.