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“I worked in script development, many years ago, and read a lot of scripts. Between that and the scripts I've read as an actor, and I'm a writer as well, I think I have a pretty good sense about whether the bones of a story are there and whether the structure is intact.”

Thinking Years Wells Stories Actors Development Years Ago Structure Scripts Bones Good Sense

Author:William Mapother

“My favorite form is the short story. From an aesthetics stand point you really have to pare down to the bone. You can't write a throw-away scene.”

Writing Stories Form Scene My Favorite Bones Short Story Aesthetics

Author:Roger Zelazny

“A rich man's body is like a premium cotton pillow, white and soft and blank. ''Ours'' is different. My father's spine was a knotted rope, the kind that women use in villages to pull water from wells; the clavicle curved around his neck in high relief, like a dog's collar; cuts and nicks and scars, like little whip marks in his flesh, ran down his chest and waist, reaching down below his hip bones into his buttocks. The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.”

“Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.”

Stories Pain Lost Bits Bones Smallest Lovely Bones

Book:The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic

Source: The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic

“Our bodies are garbage heaps: we collect experience, and from the decomposition of the thrown-out eggshells, spinach leaves, coffee grinds, and old steak bones out of our minds come nitrogen, heat, and very fertile soil. Out of this fertile soil bloom our poems and stories. But this does not come all at once. It takes time. Continue to turn over and over the organic details of your life until some of them fall through the garbage of discursive thoughts to the solid ground of black soil.”

Mind Doe Stories Body Turns Fall Black Details Bones Coffee Heat Soil Thrown Take Time Garbage Grind Fertile Steak It Takes Time Nitrogen Spinach Fertile Soil Eggshells Decomposition

Author:Natalie Goldberg