We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.
Maeve BinchyRead
All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
Interpretation
The quote expresses the author's desire to create relatable and enjoyable stories for readers.
Maeve Binchy conveys her passion for storytelling with the aim of creating a connection with her audience. She desires to craft narratives that resonate with people's lives, providing them comfort and familiarity through her writing.
In practice
This quote can be used in a writing workshop to inspire budding authors to focus on the emotional connection in their stories.
We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.
I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.
There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes a confident duck able to take charge of her own life and problems.
The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
The most important thing to realize is that everyone is capable of telling a story.
We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.
The stage was our school, our home, our life.
Art is what we do when we're truly alive.
Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.
I was always writing for myself. I wrote what I needed to write and hear - that's what makes it powerful.
One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor by means of botany and soil-science; but it grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mold of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps. No doubt there is much personal selection, as with a gardener: what one throws on one's personal compost-heap; and my mold is evidently made largely of linguistic matter.
Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends.
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