When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right.
Interpretation
The struggle in storytelling can indicate deeper conceptual flaws.
David E. Kelley highlights the importance of a story's foundational concept, suggesting that if significant effort is required to make a story come together, it may be a sign that the underlying idea needs reevaluation. This reflects the belief that storytelling should flow with a certain ease when the core premise is sound and well-thought-out.
In practice
A writer referring to this quote while discussing the challenges they face in their latest project.
You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn't mean you can't provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.
Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?
The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.
The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
People think that digital language is a fixed language, but it's not: it's very fluid. It's like I'm doing a painting where the paint refuses to dry.
Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art
When I write, I make my memories tangible, and in this way I can get rid of them.
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