“Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the beginning of, say, chapter two and have thought: “This is where the novel should actually start.” A huge amount of information about character and backstory can be conveyed through small detail. The emotional attachment you feel to a scene or a chapter will fade as you move on to other stories. Be business-like about it.” FeelsShouldTwoCharacterStoriesMovingMy OwnNovelCuttingCrazyInformationEmotionalHugeAmountSceneIncludingDetailsAttachmentFadesChaptersManuscriptsLess Is MoreSmall Details Author:Sarah Waters
“You hear all these stories about, 'There's one in a million guys that make it to the NBA and stay there.' To see people cheering for me and when they say my name, it's just crazy. It's still crazy to me.” PeopleStillsStoriesGuyNamesMillionsCrazyNbaCheerOne In A Million Author:Kevin Durant
“I have not lost any of my crazy, fearless, raw, soulful, eclectic side and I plan on continuing to tell universal stories in an unforgettable way.” WayStoriesLostSidesPlansCrazyUniversalFearlessContinuingEclecticSoulfulUnforgettableEclectic Style Author:Janelle Monae
“My dream career would be to be in things that have real heart and are telling real stories but while doing that, you're getting really big laughs. I don't necessarily love the straight crazy comedies. 'Caddyshack' is amazing, but there's not a lot of new 'Caddyshack's.” HeartRealStoriesDreamBigsWould BeCareersLaughingComedyCrazyReal StoryReal Heart Author:Jake M. Johnson
“I usually make up stories for my kids.I like to tell them stories and make up any kind of crazy to involve them in characters. The kind of fairytales I don't like are the ones with happy endings, where there's just good and evil and things are perfect. I think when there's a good story for children it has a moral tale, so that's what I try to teach my kids.” ThinkingTryingKindChildrenCharacterStoriesKidsEvilPerfectMoralTeachCrazyTalesGood And EvilHappy EndingsGood StoryFairytale Author:Angelina Jolie
“We live in this irreparably broken world, and I don't wish to deny reality, but the amazing thing to me is not that we refuse to relinquish hope as a species. The amazing thing is that we're right to hold on to hope. The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy. ... Obviously not all stories end happily. We don't always have good fortune, but hope gives us, as a species and as individuals, what we otherwise wouldn't have: A chance.” WorldGivingMayEndsStoriesRealityIndividualWishChanceCrazyBrokenFortuneSpeciesRefuseDenyGood FortuneAmazing ThingsBroken World Author:John Green
“Final Execution is Wolverine's spotlight arc. He goes through a crazy thing here. I think the fear with him is that he's in so many books that his growth can become stagnant. He ends this story in a very different place.” ThinkingBookDifferentEndsStoriesGrowthCrazyFinalsExecutionDifferent PlaceArcsSpotlightStagnantCrazy Things Author:Rick Remender
“Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without a comment is a wonderful social grace ... Children who have the habit of constantly correcting should be stopped before they grow up to drive spouses and everyone else crazy by interrupting stories to say, 'No, dear -- it was Tuesday, not Wednesday.” ShouldChildrenStoriesSocialGrowsMistakeGrowing UpGraceWonderfulCrazyHabitDearAllowingCommentSpouseUnimportantTuesdayWednesdayCorrectingInterruptingSocial Graces Author:Judith Martin
“The dumbest women I hooked up with were in Florida. I lived in Florida for a year... and it was just shocking. I literally felt like after living there for a couple months that I had become stupider. It was unbelievable. If you read the stories on my site that are based around crazy women, about 75 percent of those women were in Florida and I only lived there for a year.” IfsYearsStoriesFeltCrazyMonthsCouplePercentFloridaShockingUnbelievableHookedCrazy Women Author:Tucker Max
“In a sense my whole life as a writer is trying to find structural ways, or formal ways, to permit that outflowing so it doesn't just look like crazy output. In other words, if it turns out that you can do a given voice, that's just kind of inclination. But then if you can find a way to put that voice in a story so that the voice serves a purpose, then I would say that's being a writer.” IfsWayTryingLooksKindWholeStoriesPurposeTurnsGivenVoiceCan DoCrazyWhole LifePermitFormalInclinationOutput Author:George Saunders