I approached writing a story for the CBC Literary Awards as a mercenary venture - $5,000 for one story, not bad. Now, how do you win it? Jurors are wading through skyscrapers of paper, looking for one story that stands out.
Michael Winter
Related I learned there were lots of realities in the world. HARUKI MURAKAMI Every writing course I ever heard of said the same thing. Take one story, follow it through, beginni... DOROTHY ALLISON I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a stor... MARGARET MAHY one day I will tell you a story. A story that will make you ponder. A story that will make you wonde... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Perhaps a body of work isn't necessary for a short story writer. If you do one story that survives i... WILLIAM MAXWELL What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI That's A Story For Another Day! TED KROL There are three things that are important for a film. Number one is story, number two is story, numb... MARK STRICKSON It is easy to arrange the words in a story born out of a dream; for a story without a dream, a story... DEJAN STOJANOVIC To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - n... LANGSTON HUGHES (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON It's nice to get awards but the only awards I want are titles. They probably voted for me because I ... RONNIE O'SULLIVAN If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and a... VIN SCULLY I'm always looking for a story of survival. DAVE PELZER There are very few works of fiction that take you inside the heads of all characters. I tell my writ... JULIA GLASS I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is real... SAM JAEGER I said that I have finished telling my story, not that the story is finished. I said before that no ... HERBERT ROSENDORFER I am waiting for the right story to tell. Just like 'Man of Tai Chi' just seemed to be the r... KEANU REEVES I had written a story. I wrote the story out of some desperation, really, and I didn't know I wa... DEBORAH EISENBERG Armenian folklore has it that three apples fell from Heaven: one for the teller of a story, one for ... NANCY WILLARD It was just a huge story for our little paper to cover. It was for us what Katrina is for people dow... DENNY DAVIS There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All... OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Sharing stories that fill our chambers with an explosion of unique voices is a means to instigate an... KILROY J. OLDSTER Do you know how many times I've read "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" to this kid? That is one fucked-... HUNTLEY FITZPATRICK It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiast, but it's the truth nevertheless — pictures tell any sto... WILLIAM MOULTON MARSTON Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do t... JOHN BERGER There's something horribly unfair about dying in the middle of a good story, before you have a chanc... JOE HILL If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doe... TIM VINE One of the ready advantages of writing a road or quest story is that it mirrors the experience of wr... CHANG-RAE LEE Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul. IVAN DOIG Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I ... ELIZABETH GEORGE I intentionally approached each story in 'Killing and Dying' in a different way, and that in... ADRIAN TOMINE As a media member, my goal is to inform the American fans of persons of character. It's a joy fo... DOMINIQUE DAWES As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily ... RANDA HAINES They are looking for a good sale of Toy Story one and two (to be re-released next quarter), and whil... MICHAEL KUPINSKI Everything we come across becomes a part of us. It doesn't matter how small or insignificant it is�... BHASKARYYA DEKA That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY It's a story about American combat in a foreign country, ... and it's a heroic story. Right now, not... JOHN DAHL I've tried to tell a story. For me, it is the best one. AMANDA LEAR For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel. LYNN ABBEY Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story. FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT PERCIVAL: Now, who is telling the story? SEVERIN: The camera is telling the story. It's watchin... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Professional cinema image-taking should integrate, serve, interest, and enhance the story. I judge c... HASKELL WEXLER One of the things we have been experimenting with is not putting the main story at the front of the ... ALAN RUSBRIDGER It is just the sweetest story. It is the perfect story for a musical, because it is about love and i... BO THORP My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story o... BLACK ELK Oh yes, I've been approached to do all sorts of nonsense. How about a remake of 'West Side S... TERRY ZWIGOFF Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Ala... LILLY LEDBETTER Writing about myself (in MI VIDA), has given me a feeling that I had never had before- that the past... JOSé N. HARRIS If it has something of substance and a platform that makes sense, I can share my story. You can get ... TIONNE WATKINS I am more one for the story, I think, than the action. SARA SHERIDAN The media is looking every season for a designer to tell a story. I have a long story I have to tell... HELMUT LANG I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long strea... SOL STEIN Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton... CAROLINE LAWRENCE Certainly it is a problem for Bush that this story is breaking now. JAMES LUCIER I suppose you can guess the whole story now? After all, it's a primitive story. A man had two enemie... G.K. CHESTERTON For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story. REBECCA SKLOOT I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to ... ERIC BROWN The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance f... RON CARLSON Everything you write makes you better. But if you really need a tip, here's one: a good story be... CHRIS WOODING The story wasn't there, ... It was a mistake. It was a bad mistake, and CNN has apologized for it, a... FLOYD ABRAMS I'm not sure if that many people are as involved in their pieces as me. I wrote the story for over t... JENNIFER MYERS There are also books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the... STEPHEN KING A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul. ERIC PIO I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and charact... ERIC BROWN I believe that — in spite of this courageous, not comic but tragic book by Will Eisner — the sto... WILL EISNER When you teach through puppets you are giving children something to remember the story with. A milk ... MARILYN PRICE There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All... OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the stor... STEPHEN KING Usually, when I read something, I'm looking for the story first. And then, when I re-read it, I ... GUS VAN SANT It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS It was the kind of story everybody likes, about a tough girl who becomes a truer version of herself ... CHRIS KRAUS That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it... LAURIE LEE The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything ... ORSON SCOTT CARD Don't think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the motherfucking story. DON ROFF 'Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that ... JO NESBO There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not... MARK TWAIN I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that w... BRENé BROWN They bring a new story out every time I see them. But now I have the best story of all. AUSTIN PEEBLES I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I beco... STEVEN SPIELBERG History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of p... C. S. LEWIS In former times when a big story broke, I would automatically want as many reporters out on the stor... MICHAEL WILLIAMS I think it is wise. Hers is a bad story and when you are in the middle of a bad story, the overridin... FRASER SEITEL Look my story has been a really happy one except for that comment from John Brogden, so let's not dw... BOB CARR When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin. SARA ZARR The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lo... RUMI The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lo... JALAL AD-DIN RUMI I was looking for an interesting story and exceptionally exotic characters, MARTIN CHARNIN When I was a boy, my mother would tell me that one of the best things in life is the knowledge that ... RENEE AHDIEH When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the ou... PAT BARKER Spend more time working before you write page one. Then, the story - at least parts of it - will fee... DOUGLAS BRUNT It's the perfect show to write on because you get to do everything. One week you can do a con story,... EDWARD KITSIS No one else knows the whole story. I was there. I lived through it. CHRISTINE KEELER I'm suspicious of their story, ... They are not out of the woods in this one yet. JOHN STONE We can play now… just do that and that little piece of kinky thoughts… few perverts add and you ... DEYTH BANGER I don't think people hold United responsible for what happened, and the story is really a story of c... ALAN SIEGEL But there's always a story behind the story. That's how the story never ends: Someone is always tell... ARI BERK & CAROLYN DUNN The simplicity of being my own woman, is that when I share my story it opens up the door for you to ... SUSIE L HILL
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