Stories Quotes
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Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.
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For me, my films have already aged. When they're finished, I don't want to watch them. Of course, I feel protective, but I try not to attach myself to these stories.
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Stories happen only to those who are able to tell them, someone once said. In the same way, perhaps, experiences present themselves only to those who are able to have them.
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I'm the man who sits behind a table and tells true stories from his life. I'm also an actor. I was trained as an actor at Emerson College, and I use that training to play myself.
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But stories somehow lengthen when begun.
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I never wanted to do anything else but fight, when I was a kid. I never had any broader perspective of my own perspective. I didn't know anything about anything else. I just wanted to fight until I could fight no more, and then I wanted to own a bar and drink and tell war stories.
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You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.
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I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.
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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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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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When we uplift artists who reflect diverse perspectives their stories not only tell us how people view others, but how they view themselves.
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I am in the Special Operations Executive because I can speak French and German and am good at making up stories, and I am a prisoner in the Ormaie Gestapo HQ because I have no sense of direction whatsoever.
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You break the story first, and then you go into the specifics.
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Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.
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I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.
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So much history can be lost if no one tells the story - so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.
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But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it.
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I started out writing stories because that's all I wanted to read, but now I don't know if I'll ever write one again.
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I'm overflowing with stories, delighted and quite mad with the beauty and tragedy of them.
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They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were not lonely anymore. They had found and been found by their 100% perfect other. What a wonderful thing it is to find and be found by your 100% perfect other. It's a miracle, a cosmic miracle.
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Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.
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Stories are like catechisms, but they're catechisms for your impulses, they're catechisms with flesh on.
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The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.
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Love is a power greater than death, just like the songs and stories told.
