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I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either.

I'm always drawn to stories that people don't know about, particularly when they're inside of a story that everyone knows about.

Rather than saying people aren't interested when things don't take off, you should take it on yourself to say, 'I'm not doing a great job of telling the story in a way that makes it interesting.'

I think it's more interesting to throw people into a story and let them catch up instead of explaining and feeling like you have to slow down for them. I think audiences, for the most part, they don't want to be ahead of you.

My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.

People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't see themselves as storytellers.

A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.

I don't want to do stories that don't have a heart. I'm just not going to be satisfied with stories where I can't be passionate about the subject, where I can't make a difference.

A lot of the stories I've read about myself, I don't even recognize who they're writing about.