Stories Quotes
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them.
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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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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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New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.
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Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.
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We tell stories to live, to love, to prosper and to fail.
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Baseball is all about stories, many of which are even true.
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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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The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.
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Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.
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I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just kid stuff.
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If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.
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Stories are not complicated. They are, in fact, deceptively simple. But like anything simple, they are difficult to create.
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I know that some of the things which happen in these stories are not likely, but sometimes I wonder if they are not possible in some way.
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Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
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In order to deliver the emotional truth in the story, you have to include some of the literal truth.
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At eleven I was at the peak of my creative powers: I was writing stories and playlets, putting together poetryprojects. I was absorbed by my 'work.' At twelve I was no longer reading or writing, just counting off days and checking them off. I was interested in survival.
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I make films because I am endlessly fascinated by people. I'm fascinated immediately to know about the lives that are going on around me. That is what drives me. And that is because everybody matters, everybody is there to be cared about, everybody is interesting and everybody is the potential central character in a story. Judging people is not acceptable.
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The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.
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We like to look out on the world and see ourselves, so we have many, many novels, memoirs, and short stories in Iraq that are largely about Americans in Iraq, doing what Americans do.
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Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is a very valuable thing to learn. And I learned that from motion pictures, too, and from poetry. Poetry is mainly metaphor. If it doesn't have a metaphor, it doesn't work.
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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 am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion.
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The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
