“Character is not purchased with a dance in the street. It's expensive and hard to come by. Though it is the heir of disappointment, betrayal and frustration, it is not the inheritance that matters but what you do with it.… — Billy Marshall Stoneking Copy Share Image
“The answer to the question, 'where's the drama?' is another question: 'what's the problem?” — Billy Marshall Stoneking Copy Share Image
“What monster sleeps in the deep of your story? You need a monster. Without a monster there is no story.” — Billy Marshall Stoneking Copy Share Image
“If you would know this country, you must know its stories.” — Billy Marshall Stoneking Copy Share Image
“From the writer's perspective, audience is always an act of the imagination.” — Billy Marshall Stoneking Copy Share Image
“No one ever developed their character by arranging their experiences in such a way that only ‘good’ things are allowed to happen to them.… — Billy Marshall Stoneking Copy Share Image
“Character is not purchased with a dance in the street. It's expensive and hard to come by. Though it is the heir of disappointment,… — Billy Marshall Stoneking Copy Share Image
“There’s a chasm between writing about yourself and writing about your personal life. A lot of young writers want to turn their lives into… — Billy Marshall Stoneking Copy Share Image
“POUND We spend twelve hundred generations developing so-called civilization to the point where it produces an expert who can offer us salvation from our… — Billy Marshall Stoneking Copy Share Image
“Originality has nothing to do with producing something ’ new’ - it is about seeking the source, the primordial ground from which you draw… — Billy Marshall Stoneking Copy Share Image
“Some writers might tell you that writing is like a piece of magic - a process of creating something out of nothing, and I… — Billy Marshall Stoneking Copy Share Image
“No matter how cleverly we disguise our anxieties they bear witness to the imperfect nature of the human heart. To be is to become.… — Billy Marshall Stoneking Copy Share Image
