Stories Quotes
I think we'd all hate to be the one who gets declared undateable by one's entire grad-school population based on a couple of told and retold stories.
What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality.
If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.
The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story, based on who's embodying it.
We have a rule in our franchise that there is no canon. You as a player decide what your story is.
That something extra, I believe, is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers like to be associated with those qualities.
The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring.
Appearances are significant, and never more than in politics. You can always sway the crowd, provided you have a good story.
Please tell me you did not bring me out here so you could tell me a very boring story about your sister.
Well, why did you kill Jeremiah? And don't bother feeding me some story about how you just happened to wander along after he spontaneously died. I know you did this.
If you're really tired, I could put you to sleep," he said. "Tell you a bedtime story." She looked at him. "Are you serious?" "I'm always serious
I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video.
If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new - then put it in the trash.
We are all impacted by the failings of a news media that almost always chooses which stories to cover according to the priorities and perspectives of white men with private educations.
…everything has a narrative, really, and if you can’t understand a story and relate to it, figure out how you fit inside it, you’re not really alive at all.
He tried to reconstruct the story in his mind, but it kept getting confused, bleeding into itself like watercolors.
It's not about finding Mr Right, or that sort of conventional ending, but I do want my characters to have hope - and that's what I do with all my stories.
People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not." "Shouldn't the storyteller believe it." "The storyteller should tell it.
I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.
I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me.
I don't think I've ever really pursued telling my story, but I think things come to you at the right time.
You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story I have.
I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive failures might arise again.
I walk into the kitchen, look at the typer down there on the floor. It's a dirty floor. It's a dirty typer that types dirty stories
Who doesn't want to be loved? That's the whole point. So, when you can get that from someone across the globe, for just telling a story, that's a special thing.
I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.
You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.
I don't know what makes a good feature story. I've always assumed that if it was a story that interested or amused me, that it would have the same impact on other people.
Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.
I firmly believe as an author you have to go out in life and hear the stories of people. In pubs in the UK or a retirement home in the US it is the stories of others that bring a book to life.
I mean, sometimes we do do that, The National Anthem was a caustic satire and sometimes that's the way to go with the story rather than me being particularly misanthropic.
He knew one thing for sure, though. Whatever happened, Matt would have some handy excuse. He'd make up some story or change an old one, find some dumb quote to explain it all.
If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a spaceship, you don't have to have someone thrown out an airlock.
I think that people create the world that they live in. Your existence is very subjective, and you tell stories and organize the world outside of you into these stories to help you understand it.
I think since I did Monster I really started understanding how hard it is for first time directors. I think there's a lot of great stories out there, but it's high risk.
For me, the more I understand the story of others, the greater I am able to learn and help other people.
You get closer to your own humanity by understanding the stories of other people and the struggles they have.
Often when people tell their story, they talk about their strengths and resiliency. It's really about their determination and their aspiration to survive and live.
