“There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters.” NeedsCharacterStoriesSeemsMy OwnSpaceOrdinaryEverydayAbandonTake MeEveryday LifeRetreatTime And SpaceOrdinary Life Author:Margaret Mahy
“I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page or two.” IfsWritingTwoStoriesCouplePagesEverydayMomentumParagraph Author:James Rollins
“I am grieved that these continuing stories are everyday matters swept away.” MatterStoriesEverydayContinuingSwept Away Author:Sheila Nevins
“I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time to look around, you can see that, then you can put it all together and tell the story.” IfsWritingLooksDifferentStoriesTogetherHappeningsEverydayDifferent Things Author:Desmond Dekker
“As an emerging photojournalist in the early 70s, my focus was on trying to create stories for magazines to the exclusion of almost everything else. I wish someone had told me then that the most personally important pictures you’ll ever make are those about you and your life. I’m glad I had the chance to work for some great magazines, but I really miss those little everyday images, the ones that take place in and around your own life, which will never make the news. Don’t sell yourself short: photograph your own life, not just everyone else’s.” TryingLittlesImportantStoriesWishChanceFocusMissingNewsSellsEverydayPhotographGladMagazinesEmergingExclusionPhotojournalistsYourself Short Author:David Burnett
“I was always fascinated by fairy stories, fantasy, you know, demons, necromancers, gods and goddesses, everything that is out of our kin and out of our everyday world. I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am.” KnowsWorldStillsStoriesFantasyEverydayDemonFairyFascinatedGoddessMagicianEnchantmentFairy StoriesGods And Goddesses Author:Christopher Lee
“Centuries from now our great-great-great-grandchildren will look back at us with amazement at how we could allow such a precious achievement of human culture as the telling of a story to be shattered into smithereens by commercials, the same amazement we feel today when we look at our ancestors for whom slavery, capital punishment, burning of witches, and the inquisition were acceptable everyday events.” FeelsHumansLooksStoriesTodayFilmCultureCenturyEventsAchievementHollywoodSlaveryEverydayPunishmentBurningWitchAncestorAcceptableGrandchildrenShatteredAmazementCapital PunishmentInquisitionGreat Grandchildren Author:Werner Herzog
“I have a blog where I keep in touch with my fans. I write about things that are important to me. Sometimes on there I'll just tell a little story about the things that happen in my everyday life. People seem to enjoy them well enough.” PeopleWritingWellsLittlesImportantSometimesEnoughStoriesSeemsHappensEnjoyFansEverydayEveryday LifeBlogs Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“Ideas for stories come in really different terms and really different ways for me. Sometimes they're from books, sometimes they're just kind of out of the air, from nowhere, sometimes they're biographical, or sometimes they're other things [everyday life].” WayKindBookIdeasDifferentSometimesStoriesTermAirEverydayDifferent WaysEveryday Life Author:Brian Evenson