Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.
I love to tell stories. It's a delight for me.
Every time I get a script in my inbox, it's like a little Christmas present. It's so exciting to see what they've cooked up.
I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.
For me, the act of telling the story and showing it to somebody is almost gravy.
Storytelling has always been one of my great pleasures.
What excites me, what attracts me, what gets me up in the morning is telling the next story and getting it out in front of readers and hoping they'll love it too.
There was something about telling the lie-story and seeing your friends' eyes grow wide with wonder. Of course I got in trouble for lying, but I didn't stop until fifth grade.
For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
It was really fun to start writing movies because you could actually take characters whose voice you enjoy writing in and have actual things happen to them for more than five minutes. It was really fun to thread it together.
I'm driven by telling stories, I love telling stories.
I just feel so lucky to tell stories and make up stories and share them with people.
I love stories. I just enjoy telling stories and watching what these characters do - although writing continues to be just as hard as it always was.
To me, writing is fun. It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story.
It would appear that I just love writing many different stories.
I think the most important lesson isn't necessarily to try and write a different book every time, or to try and brand yourself and write one specific kind of book, but to write the kind of books you love to read.
I just want the fans of the book to be happy. I don't necessarily care about anyone else.
I was deeply infected with storytelling from the get go, and I truly love it.
Obviously, you're always happy when you can tell a story completely from beginning to end and tell it in a satisfying way, where you're able to make yourself happy and make the audience happy.
It took many years to accept that fantasy is the fuel for my storytelling passion, and without that, I really am a hack, writing for money or approval rather than for the pure delight of storytelling.
On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter.
I love telling stories. You know why I love it? Because people love listening.
The less attractive the character, the more I enjoyed writing them. Officious bureaucrats and PowerPoint weasels are where it's at for me.
