The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.
Chuck Palahniuk
A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine.
When I first read the story 'Guts' in workshop - my fellow writers that I've been meeting with for almost 20 years - they laughed; they... →
There's a television show, 'Hoarders,' where people have those homes filled with stuff. Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with... →
Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.
The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.
'The Immigrant Story,' which took me about twenty-five years to write, was a very simple story, but I couldn't think of how to tell it.... →
Grace Paley
What I'm interested in doing in a story is bringing certain different languages, people, events together and then letting the reader make what he... →
So many people had been asking me to write an autobiography, or threatening to write my biography without any input from me, that I thought I'd... →
Michael Palin
Well, you can't improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane.
Adam Pally