“But I've always felt that the less you know about an actor's personal life, the more you can get involved in the story in which he's playing a character. And I don't like to see movies where you know about everything that happens behind the scenes. I can't engage in the story if I know what's going on in the actor's head.” IfsKnowsI CanCharacterStoriesHappensActorsFeltBehindsInvolvedScenePersonal LifeGet InvolvedBehind The Scenes Author:Eric Stoltz
“I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for 'The Namesake,' I felt that it had to be a novel - it couldn't work as a story.” ThinkingFirstsIdeasStoriesFeltNovelNamesake Author:Jhumpa Lahiri
“He felt a little lost, after that experience. Lost as the girls on their knees. It was a never-ending story of young girls losing themselves, such that they were no longer humans with any souls or characters, but pretty girls with fat asses and nice tits.” HumansLittlesSoulCharacterStoriesYoungGirlLostFeltNiceLosingReflectionFatsAssKneesNever EndingPretty GirlNever Ending Story Author:Jess C Scott
“It was important to me that the book didn't comment on being a teenager, but felt instead like a story told by a teenager.” ImportantBookStoriesFeltTeenagerCommentBeing A Teenager Author:David Crabb
“When I discovered that I could write music, it felt like the most natural way for me to connect with people and tell my stories. I've always thought of that as what I do: I tell stories.” PeopleWayWritingStoriesFeltNatural Author:Madonna Ciccone
“I have people constantly come up to me telling me that I have written their life. When I wrote the story I thought it was a pretty good story but I had no idea that many people felt like that.” PeopleIdeasStoriesFeltWrittenCome UpNo IdeaGood Story Author:Blackie
“Reading Gypsy Boy, I felt invited into a secret society. I've always found Gypsies mysterious and even slightly dangerous, and Mikey Walsh does an excellent job describing the cloistered lifestyle and fascinating traditions of the Romani people. Moreover, Mikey's personal story of being a misfit among misfits is both compelling and universal. I cheered for him every step of the way.” PeopleWayDoeStoriesJobsReadingFoundFeltSecretStepsBoysDangerousTraditionUniversalLifestyleMysteriousExcellentFascinatingCompellingInvitedDescribingEvery StepGypsyMisfitsSecret SocietyPersonal StoriesMikey Author:Julia Scheeres
“I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through the hardpan, I see the top of a chimney. I know there's a house under there, and I'm pretty sure that I can dig it up if I want. That's how I feel. It's like the stories are already there. What they pay me for is the leap of faith that says: 'If I sit down and do this, everything will come out okay.'” IfsKnowsWantFeelsWritingI CanStoriesHouseFeltPayWalkingCreatingOkayDown AndDesertLeapChimneysLeap Of Faith Author:Stephen King
“We have to hear the stories of women at all ages of their lives in order to really present a picture of what it felt like to be alive in our time. That's what our job is as writers is to present that and create it. Our job as writers isn't to make as much money as we can. Our job is to create a record of this time. That's why if you leave out women and the stories of women, we failed at our mission. All of us. Men and women.” IfsMenStoriesAgeJobsOrderFeltRecordsAliveMen And WomenMissionsOur Time Author:Marsha Norman
“I believe the first story I ever wrote was about a young girl who was terribly mistreated by her very cruel parents, and one day the girl fled to the woods to live amongst a pack of wolves. Hey, I was eleven, loved wolves, and had been grounded for what I felt was a minor infraction. Can you blame me?” WritingFirstsBelieveStoriesYoungGirlI BelieveFeltParentOne DayBlameWoodsHeyMinorsPacksGroundedElevenBlame MeMistreatedPacks Of Wolves Author:Victoria Laurie
“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
“It [the memoir "In The Body of the World"] wrote me. I joke about it, but this book was so unusual. It just started to come out. I really feel like it came straight from my body. I think it was both an expression of what I had gone through, but also it just felt like everything had come together in my body and it needed to tell that story.” ThinkingWorldFeelsBookStoriesBodyTogetherFeltGoneExpressionNeededJokesMemoirUnusual Author:Eve Ensler