If you're a writer, you know that the stories don't come to you - you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.
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As we get older, we demand stories that go somewhere. Things must change.
There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.
True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.
I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.
I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'
I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.
There are so many stories to be told, by so many good writers.
All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.
I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations and some even crawl out of the dusty remote recesses of my imagination.