I would spend my time telling stories or writing them.
I would like to continue to tell stories of what I did in a biographical way, so I will continue to write.
I came up with a story and I wrote it.
I don't think I'm more of a screenwriter than I am a fiction writer. I'm more of a reader than a film-watcher, so I imagine that I'm not approaching fiction or films in a particularly cinematic way.
When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.
Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story writer learns to include only the most essential information.
As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.
It's really hard to be a story writer - no matter how much acclaim you get - and not write a novel.
I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.
I have written stories since I was a child.
Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.
I love to write. I write everything across the board - kids' stories and novels and scripts. I actually would like to give that a go; I'd like to try to be a writer.
I've been writing stories, in one form or another, since I was a kid.
I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.
The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce.
Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.
