A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.
The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.
A story is how we construct our experiences.
You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.
Stories are the rich, unseen underlayer of the most ordinary moments.
The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.
I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.
Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.
I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
I have no particular reader in mind, but a passionate desire to tell an honest, moving story.