Stories Quotes
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I don't have any regrets about the album [Veedon Fleece]. But it's the same old story - an album is basically 35 or 40 minutes of what you do. It's 'part' of what you do.
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It's true that I'm drawn to unusual stories. Normal roles don't really attract me.
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I'm always interested in people being able to share stories that allow us to see the landscape of human foibles, challenges, and ultimately triumph.
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I think I like about coming-of-age stories is that there's everything in them. It's a genre that kind of contains everything: you have the chronicle, you can go into naturalism, but it's also about transforming physically, so it's kind of a fantastical genre.
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Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
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I was keenly aware that I had a unique opportunity, a front row seat, on an unfolding story and nobody else was going to see it from quite the vantage point that I saw it.
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I learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.
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I like 'Vampire Diaries' because it has great stories.
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There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in America but from the story of cinema.
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And honey, everybody eats art and drinks stories. It's the best drunk there is!
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I like the stories with the historical themes.
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I have to admit that talking authoritatively about my students' stories can make me feel, at times, like an astronaut who has just landed on a new planet and insists on giving guided tours to its inhabitants.
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I was a soul singer first and I'd write love songs. I find with soul music it's really hard to write about anything else. But I was 15 at the time when I was doing that and, to be honest, I'd never experienced love, so the words were kind of meaningless. With hip-hop music, it allowed me to talk about political and social things but also to tell stories.
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I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.
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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
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To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.
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Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.
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I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.
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He was so well behaved back in the day. He was one of the few crew members we could count on. There are so many stories about me that he could tell you, but I'd be hard-pressed to come up with a story about him.
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Like most writers, I sit in a room and scribble a story and you don't have a connection with the people who take your story, whether it be to the stage or to the screen.
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In fact, I don't even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story.
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I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.
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It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.
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People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.
