Stories Quotes
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I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.
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her stories make you believe in the power of love
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I'm happy to have a physical part in 'High Tension,' in 'Hereafter,' and in a lot of French movies and Belgian movies. But its not by chance directors choose me for physical parts. I like to do that. I like to tell a story also with the body. It's important, because you can tell a lot of things.
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I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it.
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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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That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it.
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So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.
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Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories...The memory of first putting a story into words will always prevent writers from reading their work as an ordinary reader would.
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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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One of the things that turns me on the most is imagining new worlds, just as I did as a kid, when I listened to fairy stories and imagined what they looked like and what those worlds were like.
Nick Willing -
Stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream.
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It's rare you get an idea from a dream. I can't really recall a story that ever worked out that way. I think in 35 years of writing, that I've ever had a dream that held up. They're much too dislocated
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Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.
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How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child? We can replace the narratives that hold us back by inventing wiser stories, free from childish fears, and, in doing so, disperse long-held psychological stumbling blocks.
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So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.
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We create stories to define our existence. If we do not create the stories, we probably go mad.
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I've always believed that clothing is a great way to tell your story.
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I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
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People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed.
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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 love writing stories about regular people dealing with life's biggest questions.
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For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married.
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If you have something that people connect with, you want to keep telling that story and progressing forward.
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I brought in the stories many times. I don't just do animation.
