Carol Anshaw Quotes

When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to someone else.

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

Some of the songs are inspired by personal things that have happened. Others have been inspired by other people's stories, you know, like someone that witnesses something and so I tell the story through my own eyes. And some songs are just about how I feel about the world and others about the places that we have travelled to.

She is carrying herself through the day, and it’s not an easy task.

I don't know who will overcome losses, some losses aren't meant to be overcome, but all losses make for good stories and good character development and all the jazz that makes a show compelling and watchable.

You can't rely on the acting to tell the story.

You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.

I don't think I've ever really pursued telling my story, but I think things come to you at the right time.

As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

I will always be looking back at the things I've gone through, thinking of the struggling people I've seen.

What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.

I don't really have a drive toward being a director at all. Not that I wouldn't rule it out, but I just don't think my instincts lie necessarily in a very visual way. But I am very interested in storytelling, narrative and character development, so writing is something that I absolutely want to do.

I actually enjoyed the struggles that we had trying to shape 'Blood', to get the pacing right, the rhythm of it.

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.

I'm still really fascinated with characters and people and telling their stories.

I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on different angles, and maybe one day I will, but you know what? There's time for that because I'd like to have the whole story.

Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

I told my whole life story in my book.

The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.

It's a real challenge to complete a story arc and end up with a cool punchline in 120 characters.

As a writer, it is my job to tell a story. I don't want to get involved in social commentary; I just want to show issues from a different point of view. I want to show issues from a perspective that may not be highlighted.

A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really makes a difference is having some perspective on what happened.

Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building.

There are no regrets in life, just lessons.