“I treasure the Bible. I live in it and work on it all the time. But it is not the word of God. It's the tribal story of a particular people, and the best thing about that story is that the story keeps growing and evolving.” PeopleStoriesGrowingParticularTreasureEvolveBest ThingsWord Of God Author:John Shelby Spong
“I've had that situation where I start writing somebody really miserable, and in order to make the story come alive, I have to give them a vote of confidence, make him vulnerable or wounded. But in real life, you often meet people who, in that particular moment, actually shouldn't get a vote of confidence.” PeopleGivingWritingRealMomentsStoriesOrderSituationAliveParticularVoteReal LifeVulnerableMiserableWounded Author:George Saunders
“This particular one was very, very heartwarming and is the relationship of an older man and a young boy that are essentially on the run. And so yeah, as I say, Barry Crump wrote a lot of books and this one got into the hands of Taika Watiti who then writing the screenplay decided to really vamp up if that's the word, or ramp up and modernize certain phrases - getting in the humor. So he added a lot of a real comedy perspective onto it which is what I think the story needed anyway, especially for it to turn into a film. And it worked.” IfsThinkingMenWritingBookRealStoriesHandsRunningFilmYoungCertainTurnsBoysComedyParticularPerspectiveNeededDecidedYeahPhrasesScreenplaysHeartwarmingRampOlder ManVamp Author:Rhys Darby
“I don't read or write SF for cutting edge ideas; I read and write it for the storytelling, and every story is new. So have I brought anything new to it? Only in so far as no-one before has written about the characters I've invented in their particular situation.” WritingIdeasCharacterStoriesSituationCuttingWrittenParticularEdgesStorytellingCutting Edge Author:Erica Brown