I will never repeat something verbatim on the air unless I know it's accurate. And when you go to the source, sometimes there's a better story beyond the original story. That happens all the time.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.
If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.
The Internet makes the writer work harder - I have to say things here I've never said before, or else be caught out in repeating myself.
There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.
I have a hard time keeping a story straight when I tell the truth because when you start lying you have to remember what you said, and I'm not very good at that.
I'm unfortunately very verbose too often.
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.
I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.