I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.
The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you'll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism is like a hydra - you can cut off its head in the Germany of the '30s and '40s, but it'll still turn up on your back doorstep in a slightly altered guise.
Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.
Well, we're meant to be writing stories today.
But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.
I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.
I started writing stories as a child.
Writing stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for a while, live more than one life, walk more than one path. Reading, of course, can do the same.
Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.
Love is anticipation and memory, uncertainty and longing. It’s unreasonable, of course. Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope and pleasure as love, except maybe writing a story. And nothing fails as often, except writing stories. And like a story, love must be troubled to be interesting.
I love writing stories about regular people dealing with life's biggest questions.
I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.
I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.
I think anything we do - eating, walking down the street, online shopping - gives you another perspective on writing stories.
I wasn't writing stories with the intention of creating a particular collection. I simply wrote stories, and then discovered common themes among a good number of them.
What I've found as I have kept writing stories is that more and more your way is barred. I feel really choked by what I already know how to do, by the fact that my obsessions nearly always mount a sneak attack, so that I find myself writing another version of the same thing.
If nobody is looking for a story, and I have no reason to write a story, I would really much rather to do anything else because it's no fun writing stories, particularly not for me. I just do it in order to sell them and make a couple of bucks.
The democratic race is really boring when the media is basically writing stories and spending money to ask questions in a poll about somebody who is not even a declared candidate.
I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.
I always wrote. I've written stories since I was 9. We didn't have a computer at home, but my aunt Magda had one. Whenever I'd go to her place, I was in the basement working on her computer, writing stories.
I can remember as a college student writing stories and novels, some of which ended up getting published and some that didn't. It was like my head was going to burst - there were so many things I wanted to write all at once. I had so many ideas, jammed up. It was like they just needed permission to come out.
Don't get me wrong, God Bless the farmers and cowboys. It just wasn't the life I wanted. When writing stories of other lands, I can describe people and places from actual experience. And for someone with an imagination like me, I could see dinosaurs and lost civilizations in the jungle of Vietnam.
It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.
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