There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.
The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then.
There are so many stories to be told, by so many good writers.
People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.
As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness.
There is something in human beings that loves stories.
I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based.
Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.
Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.