Stories Quotes
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But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined.
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Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database.
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It's the form it takes when it comes out the other side, of course, that gives a story something unique--its life. The story, in the way it has arrived at what it is on the page, has been something learned, by dint of the story's challenge and the work that rises to meet it--a process as uncharted for the writer as if it had never been attempted before.
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I would love more stories with strong characters of color who don't always fit the mold that Hollywood has created in the past.
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A story? No. No stories, never again.
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Find the simple story in the product, and present it in an articulate and intelligent, persuasive way.
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Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.
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People love telling their stories, even if they're very, very sad ones. People love to communicate and express.
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What kind of people we become depends crucially on the stories we are nurtured on.
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I just like that balance of the real and the fantastical because as a reader and consumer of stories and fantasy, I always want to feel like I can find that world.
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I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.
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I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.
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I wonder if people will ever say, 'Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring.' And they'll say 'Yes, that's one of my favorite stories. Frodo was really courageous, wasn't he, Dad?' 'Yes, my boy, the most famousest of hobbits. And that's saying a lot.'
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When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your connections as a human being.
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These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them, or he can enjoy listening to stories, and you have no need to go to bed before it is time. Too much sleep is only a bore. And of the others, any one whose heart and spirit urge him can go outside and sleep, and then, when the dawn shows, breakfast first, then go out to tend the swine of our master. But we two, sitting here in the shelter, eating and drinking, shall entertain each other remembering and retelling our sad sorrows. For afterwards a man who has suffered much and wandered much has pleasure out of his sorrows.
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I was trying to write a song based on a story in a random book of Puerto Rican short stories that I found in a thrift store. I thought it was really dark, and so I tried to interpret it. I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.
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You hear about those stories where a person is married to someone and they have another family - that's pretty much unforgivable!
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Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.
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I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.
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We need new stories, but I am looking forward to The Dark Crystal.
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(The movie) is the story of my life, but it's not about me. It's about anybody who ever dreamed big and had someone tell them, 'No, you can't do it.' You can.
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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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We don't think much about how our love stories will affect the world, but they do. Children learn what's worth living for and what's worth dying for by the stories they watch us live. I want to teach our children how to get scary close, and more, how to be brave. I want to teach them that love is worth what it costs.
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He admired writers whose own stories were as interesting as the ones they wrote.
