Story Quotes
The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.
Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.
When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again.
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.
Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He allegedly was seen transporting two 16 year olds across state line for immoral porpoises.
I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.
I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love story between a father and his son, and that son and his daughter.
It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.
I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.
The truth of the matter is the real story are the people who rise above all of this incredible cruelty. Otherwise that cruelty wins.
I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.
While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.
Flying the Feathered Edge captures my life story in an authentic and accurate way. I don't know how it could have been done any better.
Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.
Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story.
For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its author like a soap bubble blown from a clay pipe.
Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.
Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.
Once someone dreams a dream, it can't just drop out of existence. But if the dreamer can't remember it, what becomes of it?
Moral of the story: try to get things right, figure out what's going wrong with the scenario, and don't give up.
For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.
The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.
I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story.
The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.
Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.
I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.
Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.
A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.
The inner story, though the same in essence for all, is always single and unique in each human being, never before lived and never to be repeated.
If you have positive energy you will always attract positive outcomes.
The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him, and when he is compelled to exist, as it were, by his own inner light.
It is never about who is right or wrong, it is about what is best.
It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.
Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.
Somewhere around the place I've got an unfinished short story about Schrodinger's Dog; it was mostly moaning about all the attention the cat was getting.
All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
