Jane Lindskold Quotes

The radio is good for taking somebody else's experience and making you understand what it would be like. Because when you don't see someone, but you hear them talking - and, uh, that is what radio is all about - it's like when someone is talking from the heart. Everything about it conspires to take you into somebody else's world.

Music is supposed to create an associate level, wherein I and you and you and I can associate without any misunderstanding.

Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.

What could be more interesting, or in the end, more ecstatic, than in those rare moments when you see another person look at something you've made, and realize that they got it exactly, that your heart jumped to their heart with nothing in between.

I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.

I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it's great to be a part of and watch.

A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.

I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them. I loved the idea that you can put marks on a page and send it off, and two days later, someone laughs somewhere else in the world.

The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me.

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

I'm always interested in storytelling and whatever form that comes in.

People love stories. They need stories.

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other.

Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind.

I am drawn to writing and directing as it is most like the feeling I had when I was a teenager with my puppet theatre. You are more in control of everything and involved in every aspect of production, so more challenged and fulfilled.

Somebody once said to me, 'If you want to be understood, don't write fiction.'

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

We are the only animal that tells stories.

People need stories; they want stories. They always will.

In making up stories, as in reading stories, I could create a contained world in which an experience is shared in its entirety.

There was something really special about working with Lena Dunham. I immediately felt very comfortable with her, and we spoke the same language.

That's the power of fiction, that it can take the collective and make it personal.

The great thing about fiction is you can talk about things without being didactic about them, but hopefully forge a connection with people and an understanding about a shared humanity that tells its own story.

Sometimes if the point of a piece of music is to open a conversation with other people, it's really hard to open that conversation if you're telling people exactly what to do or feel or think.