Stories Quotes
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Every Christmas people are so nice to me, they think I am Little Tim from A Christmas Story. But I'm not. *smiles*
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The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.
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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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I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.
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I've always loved stories of animals and birds that can appear to be human, just by taking off their skins or their feathers.
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Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.
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We all know from growing up with TV that John Wells shows are usually very large ensembles with amazingly written characters. He tends to redefine the way stories are told in a specific genre, whether it's 'China Beach,' 'The West Wing,' or 'E.R.
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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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A lot of people have a lot to gain from peddling scare stories about cyber warfare.
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There were so many stories around, it was almost inevitable some of them would turn out to be true.
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It appears that the ground of being which underlies and sustains us despite our various inadequate and conflicting stories must be extremely tolerant, generous, and forgiving. All things considered, it wouldn't hurt if we were, too.
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The whole 'starting with stories, ending with novels' thing, it's probably too ingrained in the industry and the psyche to change it.
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I've always believed that clothing is a great way to tell your story.
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Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.
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But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.
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Why do you write?' Because I love words and stories so much. Because I would be grief stricken every day of my life if I couldn't write. Because I'm obsessed and compelled. Because I'd be utterly useless at anything else.
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The funny thing is, whenever I'm working on something, I kind of forget there's a lot of people watching. It makes it easier to be in the moment and to tell a story as well as possible.
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I don't really see a huge divide between filmmaking and television. In the end, a lot of people are going to be watching this stuff on their laptops and their iPhones anyway. So, it doesn't really matter where it comes from, as long as the stories get told.
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Scripture is, at its heart, the great story that we sing in order not just to learn it with our heads but to become part of it through and through, the story that in turn becomes part of us.
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Stories do not change the world. I've learned that. But perhaps in some secret, subtle way... I mean it's not the world I want to change.
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Theater is the best. That's where you get the work done. You just really get in there and figure something out about a story or a character or life or the world. That's where magic stuff happens.
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I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.
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My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.
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I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection.
