I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have to be stories about the storyteller.
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The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.
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.
Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence.
I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.
As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.
You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.
I have always loved story - I escaped within it as a child, I read every day, I love figuring out the complex layers of an author's work.
A well-written novel, the most immersive of all forms of storytelling, should command your full attention and belief.
I think that one of the things you have to do to become a storyteller is spend a lot of time reading stories.
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