Flexible Narrative Quotes

My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.

I'm going to try to tell stories and let each tale skate its own way into dark or light territory as the needs of the story steer me.

Well, I think if you're telling a story, a three act structure will just naturally emerge out of it. But I also love it when a film doesn't feel like it's anchored too rigidly to that structure and you feel like anything could happen.

I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could read the thing the way it came and then shuffle the pages, like a giant deck of cards, and read the book in an entirely different order. It would be a different book, wouldn't it? It would be one of infinite books.

In any good piece of writing, it should be easy enough to switch genders.

Narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands...a brook that never goes straight for a minute, but goes and goes briskly, sometimes ungrammatically, and sometimes fetching a horseshoe of ¾ of a mile around and at the end of the circuit flowing within a yard of the path that it traversed an hour before; but always going and always following at least one law, always loyal to that law, the law of narrative, which has no law. Nothing to do but make the trip; the how of it is not important, so that the trip is made.

I don't think anything needs to happen in a book.

I have come to the realization that history is not a fixed thing, a collection of precise dates, facts and events (even cogent commencement quotes) that add up to a quantifiable, certain, confidently known, truth. It is a mysterious and malleable thing.

There's no one way of telling a story or looking at reality, so I think any device is up for grabs as long as it fits in with the tone.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.