Siegfried Lenz Quotes
Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is perturbing my thoughts, I start to look for characters capable of representing it.Siegfried Lenz
Quotes to Explore
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It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.
Baltasar Kormakur -
I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
Salman Rushdie -
Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
Kate Christensen -
At times, the curve/fat/plus convo tends be this 'out of the dark' story, like, 'I used to be insecure, but now here I am.' But that is not my reality, and for most of the people, that isn't their reality, either.
Paloma Elsesser -
It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.
Daisy Berkowitz -
I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.
Irvine Welsh
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All of my characters are less than perfect.
Barbara Park -
I like to let the story flesh itself out, and usually, the characters make their own decisions as things get under way. Dialogue especially seems to write itself once I'm familiar with the characters and their backgrounds.
Victoria Aveyard -
Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.
Aaron Stanford -
I try to tell a story musically in a song.
Barry White -
A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.
Dan Chaon -
As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.
Damon Lindelof
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I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.
Ed Bradley -
If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I wrote my first story when I was six or seven.
Kate Christensen -
I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
I don't mind playing bad guys, but I love having the opportunity to play all different types of characters.
J. R. Bourne -
At a certain time, an artist needs a big retrospective. At other times, they need a more focused exhibition. It's a different story each time; it's about establishing a dialogue.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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If you're doing gags, I think it's important to have characters who are as strong-willed and impactful as possible.
Akira Toriyama -
About 10,000 people a day go on first dates from Match... We're trying to celebrate that, bring those success stories to the forefront and make it even easier in our product to meet up at Starbucks.
Sam Yagan -
I'm shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I won't sit on a toilet seat on a plane. I'm certainly not going to go on somebody's lawn. Could you imagine, in a cocktail dress?
Farrah Fawcett -
Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.
Paul Samuelson -
No one remembers you for standing in the crowd . But they do remember you for standing out of it.
Eddie Harris -
Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is perturbing my thoughts, I start to look for characters capable of representing it.
Siegfried Lenz