Stories Quotes
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Imagination makes us shape better stories, sure, but it also allows us to multiply possibilities.
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It's hard to know what's going to happen when you're filming a reality show, but if you just let life unfold, that's when the best stories evolve.
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Most incarcerated women have stories that are similar to mine. They suffered great trauma as children.
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Judges can bring their own biases about sexuality in the courtroom, causing victims untold pain in the telling and retailing of their stories.
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Sorry, there´s no magic bullet. You gotta eat healthy and live healthy to be healthy and look healthy. End of story.
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The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
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For me, digital is just another avenue. It doesn't mean that it has to be poor quality or poor content. But, you still run into the same struggles. You can't have full-on language, violence or sexual situations. You can't run rampant with the fact that it's digital. You can't do anything you want. You still have a responsibility to tell a story first, and show what the character is going through first, and then maybe you have a little bit of lee-way to show a more real side of life.
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I personally have a hard time with a lot of the creation stories that revolve around the creator being a white man. It seems very limiting to me. So God to me is... so limitless and magical and loving and beautiful.
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The worst part was that I had things I wanted to tell my mother, too many to count, but none of them would go down so easy. She'd been through too much, between my siters-I could not add to the weight. So instead, I did my best to balance it out, bit by bit, word by word, story by story, even if none of them were true.
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That's the most important thing for me in TV, telling the story to as many people as we can.
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There are no facts, only stories.
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If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.
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I am not chocolate and definitely not a boy. I am a man, and I have no clue how this image has stuck to me despite all these years. I think, maybe, in spite of trying to shell off my chocolate boy image, love stories excite me, and somehow I land up in such roles.
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I try not to look at stories on the Internet because I don't want to psych myself out. I kinda half to stay off the Internet. I'm not thick-skinned enough. I get too sensitive. I don't want it to effect what I'm doing.
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I think a writer's first job is to entertain, even in novels: to tell a compelling story that pulls the reader along toward an end. At the same time, the best stories are character-driven.
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I've never been in charge of my stories, they've always been in charge of me. As each new one has called to me, ordering me to give it voice and form and life, I've followed the advice I've shared with other writers over the years: jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.
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Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning.
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We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do.
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Finish your stories! Read a lot!
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The last collaborator is your audience ... when the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. Things that seem to work well -- work in a sense of carry the story forward and be integral to the piece -- suddenly become a little less relevant or a little less functional or a little overlong or a little overweight or a little whatever. And so you start reshaping from an audience.
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A shot is only as every as good as how well it tells the story.
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This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.
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I just make what I like - warm and human stories, ones about historic characters and events, and about animals. If there is a secret, I guess it's that I never make the pictures too childish, but always try to get in a little satire of adult foibles.
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We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.
