Stories Quotes
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The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write.
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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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Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.
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Everything in a story should be credible.
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I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, stories that raise moral questions but come up with very few moral answers, stories that emotionally touch readers through the characters.
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You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story I have.
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There's something wonderful about that sort of Poirot, Agatha Christie-style investigation: cross-questioning all the witnesses and checking their stories, looking for means, motive, and opportunity.
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History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.
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Your story is where you take it to, not where you start.
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I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as I am.
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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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I like to tell untold true stories, or the lesser-known aspects of larger, familiar stories. I think people or topics that are slightly on the edge or outside the mainstream often reveal more than better-known stories.
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All my jewelry has stories.
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Stories that are real, that create you, rather than be created by you, are powerful.
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I hate even the idea of a synopsis. When stories are really working, when you're providing subtextual exploration and things that are deeply layered, you're obligated to not say things out loud.
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The stage, the screen, the novel, casual conversation, the street discussion, and too often the fireside intimacies are punctuated with blasphemy, to which may be added, as of the same nature, coarse, ribald jokes, foul stories, and low small talk. Some would have us believe that profanity is a sign of masculinity and emotion maturity.
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The way Stanley Kubrick tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.
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I feel like there's more of a need to tell more optimistic stories.
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I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.
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An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.
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A miracle is an invitation into a new story.
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Often, the stories are very much like trust falls. You fall, and you hope the story's going to catch you.
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In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness.
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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.
