Stories Quotes
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The world comes to us in fragments and shards. Whatever stories we shape from our days, we're always dealing with gaps, blank-spots, and blackouts - and in handling all these breakages, we are, at all times, so incredibly intimate with sharp edges, the unending knife-like moments of failure and joy in our lives.
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There is nothing more incredible and moving and appealing than good music, and it cannot always be reduced to a story, to exposition. It's so much more abstract and brilliant.
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I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it.
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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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As an actress, you go where the stories are. I don't really care where it's seen, at this point. I just want to tell good stories and do good roles that I haven't done before.
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The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story.
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It's like creating an artificial loop saying, 'You didn't play the game the way I wanted you to play, so now you're punished and you're going to come back and play it again until you do what I want you to do.' In an action game, I can get that – why not? It's all about skills. But in a story-driven experience it doesn't make any sense.
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You're trying to bring a character to an audience, and tell stories. That's what we're all trying do.
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The stories we love best do live in us forever.
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My own words, when I am at work on a story, I hear too as they go, in the same voice that I hear when I read in books. When I write and the sound of it comes back to my ears, then I act to make changes. I have always trusted this voice.
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Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
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Stories aren’t about things. Stories are things.
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Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support.
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I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.
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I like the comedians that go into detail and tell longer stories.
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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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It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.
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Jennifer Fulwiler's story of finding God when you aren't looking for Him is a universal tale which will touch many hearts. With warmth and unflinching candor she leads us through a personal journey of faith and maturity that is as funny as it is affecting.
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You do have to listen to the stories, for stories always mean something. The question that worries me is: WHAT exactly do they mean?
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My best stories come from well-placed sources who point me in the right direction.
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There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised. He wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock innocence.
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White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins.
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The truth is, most of those female stories that are contending for Oscars are directed by men. Let's be honest. I looked at the 44 Oscar contenders in Variety that someone wrote up - there was not one directed by a woman. All the ones that were getting an Oscar pitch with the money and everything behind them were by men.
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Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today.
