Stories Quotes
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But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.
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If it has horses and swords in it, it's a fantasy, unless it also has a rocketship in it, in which case it becomes science fiction. The only thing that'll turn a story with a rocketship in it back into fantasy is the Holy Grail.
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I brought in the stories many times. I don't just do animation.
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I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.
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As a child, I was an observer, a listener for the stories of grown-ups. I led a quiet, solitary life with my mother, interrupted in the evenings by the arrival of my father who preferred to live in a state of emergency.
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I love serialized stories of any kind. I'm a huge sucker for any kind of series.
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I like songs that are part of a dramatic texture, and therefore I like the scenes to be active. I wanna follow the story and that means you lean on the actors.
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Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?
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When I was four I read the story of horton hears a who and I cried. I wanted to eat that elephant.
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Unlike stories, real life, when it has passed, inclines toward obscurity, not clarity.
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Not all stories are meant for the big screen.
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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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My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.
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A story is not the same thing when it ends as it was when it began.
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Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs.
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As a kid, I was always the jokester. I was telling stories at dinner and trying to make people laugh. I guess I've always just been naturally inclined to tell stories.
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I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My dialogue is good. And my stories are really involving.
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If you want to see the consequences of ideas, write a story. If you want to see the consequences of belief, write a story in which somebody is acting on the ideas or beliefs that she has.
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It is true that the movie is perhaps my most politically-charged. The story is thrust into motion by the idea of what do you do when your 13 year old daughter comes home pregnant. And not only is she pregnant, but she wants to keep the baby.
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I remember a point in writing the story where I said, "This isn't working, I should go and buy something at the supermarket or my wife will kill me." Then I said, "No, I'll go on."
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Really, I think among the many mistakes I've made over my life, one of them was caring so much about the short story.
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Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.
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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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I've been putting together the story with Rob and putting all the details of it together and looking at all the various designs they have for the toys and stuff, it's pretty exciting.
