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It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story.

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow.

You find most of the interesting stories are the ones that are slightly harder to get made.

As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues.

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.

All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.

You can have the greatest characters in the world and write beautifully, but if nothing's happening, the story falls on its face pretty quickly.

I always tell my students to complicate your characters: never make it easy for the reader. Nobody is ever one thing. That's what makes characters compelling.

I love stories. I just enjoy telling stories and watching what these characters do - although writing continues to be just as hard as it always was.

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.