I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.
When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story.
With 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter,' we as a group of writers had to take a rather thin novel and spread it out over the course of 12 episodes, and not only 12 episodes, but lay in story for everyone that's going to take you through five years.
Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.
I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz story that we haven't seen before. I would love to do that! I would love to play Diana Ross 'cause she's an icon. I'm salivating to do that.
'One Minute Mentoring' is written in the parable style Spencer Johnson and I popularized in 'The One Minute Manager.' It's an entertaining story about the mentorship between a young salesperson, Josh, and a seasoned executive named Diane. As the characters learn about mentoring, so does the reader.
I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing a story. I also read a lot of diaries and oral histories.
Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.
If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.
With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely different moral at the end.
Ask anyone who's successful how they got there, you're going to hear a different story.
If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.
I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
At a certain time, an artist needs a big retrospective. At other times, they need a more focused exhibition. It's a different story each time; it's about establishing a dialogue.
I do enjoy wearing a little heel when I'm at work, but when I'm running around with my son, it's a different story!
I sing 'All Apologies' with my own lyrics. People want to sing along, but then, oops, they realize it's a different story.
I think all artists have a different story to tell, and no story is the same.
If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease.
I'm not a big crier normally, but when I see people having life-changing experiences on reality shows, that's a different story.
Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.
