I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are so many stories to be told, by so many good writers.
I think that one of the things you have to do to become a storyteller is spend a lot of time reading stories.
I always take a story that's kind of out there, like an urban myth. I take some possibility that people imagine, that they are familiar with, and try to turn it into a story.
Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get people to pay attention to a book and pick up information along the way.
It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story.
Sometimes, a writer's life alone can tell a story.
I was always a storyteller. I just didn't know it. I never shared the stories I made up inside my head when I was growing up. I never wrote them down, either. But I can't remember a time when they weren't there.
Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.
I'm always drawn to stories that people don't know about, particularly when they're inside of a story that everyone knows about.