Stories Quotes
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The press has made up so much...God...awful, horrifying stories...it has made me realize the more often you hear a lie, I mean, you begin to believe it.
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When we combine very real workplace inequalities with these romantic opt-out stories, the idea that "having it all" is a laughable goal becomes enshrined as immutable truth. And when we portray opting out as a simple matter of "choice," we ignore the systematic problems that make combining work and motherhood so difficult.
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My boyfriend asked me to tell a story without my hands, and I couldn't talk.
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Your excuses will never be as good as the story of how you got it done.
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All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.
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It would appear that I just love writing many different stories.
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I just loved making words into stories by the sound of my voice.
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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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Perhaps the community you mentioned might not come to the story. Sometimes you have to take the story to them, and perform it, and that's another way that I get an alternate point of view that isn't the official version of history out to a community. I feel that's what I've been doing since Caramelo.
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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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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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I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.
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But the thing is that I’m in love with Rafael’s story. I think I understand when Adam says that all our stories are different but in some ways our stories are all the same. I never really got that. But when I start to read Rafael’s journal, it’s as if I can see myself. It’s better than a mirror.
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I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.
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Memories were moving pictures in which meaning was constantly in flux. They were stories people told themselves.
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I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.
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I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say.
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The history of the United States is the story of people of many backgrounds.
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I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts, and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can't be judged only by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgements make hypocrites of us all; that a lot of life is just showing up and hanging on; that laughter is often the best, and sometimes only response to pain.
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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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You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.
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I don't have the story finished and ready when we start work on a film. I usually don't have the time. So the story develops when I start drawing storyboards. I never know where the story will go but I just keeping working on the film as it develops. It's a dangerous way to make an animation film and I would like it to be different, but unfortunately, that's the way I work and everyone else is kind of forced to subject themselves to it.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
