Relish being an oddball: Well-behaved, well-adjusted people are hopeless storytellers and, honestly, terribly boring.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My life as an author has always been about brilliant, odd people.
The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.
That's the trouble with stories. People start out fantastic. You think they're extraordinary, but it turns out as the work goes along, they're just average with a good education.
Stories are the rich, unseen underlayer of the most ordinary moments.
Above all, a well-imagined story is organized around extraordinary human behaviors and unexpected and startling events, which help illuminate the commonplace and the ordinary.
Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.
There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.
Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.
When I started to be a writer, I was not going to run the risk of boring you.
Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested. Even the real monsters have to have a spark of something you can relate to.
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