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Parineeta is a classic love story.

I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with someone else's characters and stories.

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

The most powerful stories are the ones that unite us, not divide us.

When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.

We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in hand is build a story to explain the facts.

If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories.

In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why.

The camera is an extension of yourself... Your story treatment may be subjective, but it is important to remain objective as to truth.

Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you don't matter, or like you don't have a place in our American story - because you do.

In all the history of the boxing game, you'll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James J. Braddock.

I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier.

Every leader is telling a story... about what he or she values.

I've heard that story about kids are high naturally, but I've seen kids that aren't high, kids who've had the high taken out of them.

Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new.

I consider a story merely as a frame on which to stretch my materials.

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.

Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.

If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

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.

Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity?

The stories that are too personally vulnerable to write are the ones that must be told.

Never underestimate the power of a good story.

Every day is a new opportunity to make your life a story worth telling.

You don't have to believe that there was a King Arthur to get the significance of those stories, but Christians say we have to believe there was a Christ, or the miracles don't make sense.

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

Until the missing story of ourselves is told, nothing besides told can suffice us: we shall go on quietly craving it.

I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection.

When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting perhaps in this. And the dialogue you make as true as you can.

Frankly, there isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story.

I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.

If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.

Ninth graders with machine guns: its hard to make that a happy story.

It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.

A story is a burden which must be carried with as much care as we carry a sleeping child

These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.

American pictures usually have no subject, only a story. A pretty woman is not a subject. Julia Roberts doing this and that is not a subject.

There are so many different stories. You can choose to tell them, or not, but they certainly have the right to exist

We are defined by the stories we tell ourselves.

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

STORIES WE TELL is one of the boldest and most exciting films I’ve seen in the last six months, and the kind of experience that has the power to alter your perception of the world.

I love a good cliffhanger. I love when big events happen in shows. I love shows that aren't afraid to take risks and to really do what's best for the story line and realistic for the story line.

You are the director of your own life story. Don't cast idiots or people will walk out during your 2nd act.

The rule I have when choosing films is the excitement factor, I need to feel excited about the story and whatever message the film has - only then do I sign on the dotted line.

You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it's the story that matters.

The press has made up so much...God...awful, horrifying stories...it has made me realize the more often you hear a lie, I mean, you begin to believe it.

No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought; no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought.

I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.