Story Quotes
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Isn't any friendship a love story?
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My story is just my story, and it's not nearly as traumatic as some.
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People say a story is a window into another mind, another world. I believe they are more mirrors that windows. In them, we glimpse ourselves dressed up as the characters. And like any reflection, the truth we see can be hard to swallow.
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One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.
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Friendship warms like a sunbeam; charms like a good story; inspires like a brave leader; binds like a golden chain; guides like a heavenly vision.
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No, love, in real life you can get all the way to death and never have finished one single story.
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What I look for is identifying what the utility of a character is to the telling of the story overall. If I can identify that from reading the script, then I've got a clear idea of whether or not I think the character is worth playing.
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I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.
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I was using Twitter a lot on my phone, and was realising there was a massive gap between the link on the tweet and the full story. If you could come up with a summary layer to show in Twitter, that would be awesome.
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It's no sin to tell a good story.
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I've seen many films and read lots of thrillers - and I'm always disappointed that I can guess the story before the other viewers.
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I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.
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There cannot be any 'story' without a fall - all stories are ultimately about the fall - at least not for human minds as we know them and have them.
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If you always start with the worst hand, you never have a bad-beat story to tell.
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People just like a good crime story; they want to know who did it.
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No matter how clear things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution, as there was in math. The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a problem into another form. Depending on the nature and the direction of the problem, a solution might be suggested in the narrative. Tengo would return to the real world with that solution in hand. It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell. It served no immediate practical purpose, but it contained a possibility.
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At the core of investigative journalism is exactly the same thing that drives a page-turning thriller: telling a great story.
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Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101.
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Every story has a place where it deserves to be told.
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Every story is us
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A lot of people have that story that they used to sell crack or shoot people; that's nothing new. But honestly, if that was me, I probably still wouldn't be doing that because it's so many people that's doing that. It just gets old when you hear a million raps about how many ways I could shoot you. So I just try to be more creative and come with something new because I actually care about the music.
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I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.
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I love books that give you space to climb inside there. And you have to run to keep up in places, and you have to fill in a lot of blanks yourself. So it almost becomes your story.
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For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.
