“Your audience is your adversary. If you don't have one get one - imagine it. Imagine it now. To whom is your story addressed and why? Audience is always a creative act of the imagination. You can't tell your story… — 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
