“The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising ("but of course that's why he was doing that, and that means that...") and it's magic and wonderful and strange.” PeopleKnowsFeelsWritingMeanMomentsStoriesCoursesFictionAudienceFireWonderfulMagicStrangePagesObviousCreatorMake SenseBest ThingsThat MomentSurprisingWriting FictionSaying And Doing Author:Neil Gaiman
“In general, I don't like game mechanics, I mean it's the idea you do the same things through different levels. I think, in my mind, it's an ideas I don't really like because I love to do different things and like to see the story moving on and I like to do different things and different scenes, not do the same thing over and over again. If it involves violence at some point fine, if it makes sense in the context. But violence for the sake of violence, it doesn't mean anything to me anymore.” IfsThinkingMindMeanIdeasDifferentStoriesMovingGamesLevelsViolenceFineSceneSakeMake SenseDifferent ThingsMechanicDifferent Levels Author:David Cage
“I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in.” WorldWayGivingBelieveImportantStoriesI BelieveOur LivesCreatingEmpathyMake SenseAllowing Author:Neil Gaiman
“It's not that there is no such thing as truth. But we come to like and trust a certain story, not because it's necessarily the most absolutely truthful, but because it's a thing that we tell ourselves that makes sense of the world, at least at this moment.” WorldMomentsStoriesTruthCertainMake SenseTruthful Author:Michael Kimmelman
“Anytime I've ever been involved in a non-linear story, you see it in a linear manner first, just to make sure it makes sense, and then you chop it up and move it around.” FirstsStoriesMovingInvolvedMake SenseLinear Author:Zack Snyder
“The world of counterterrorism is like that old jigsaw puzzle in the back of the closet: Its many missing pieces and extra parts jumbled in from other puzzles make it almost impossible to assemble. But in Ghost, Fred Burton manages to join together enough pieces to give us a discerning look at that world. This is a story, told in human terms, that will help make sense of the great puzzle of our times.” WorldGivingHumansLooksEnoughHelpingStoriesTogetherTermPiecesImpossibleMissingGhostManageMake SenseOur TimeExtrasClosetsPuzzlesDiscerningJigsawJigsaw PuzzlesMissing Piece Author:Eric L. Haney