Stories Quotes
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How do we change the world? Change the story.
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War all comes down to these little tiny stories about people's lives that will never be the same.
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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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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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Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.
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A story is not the same thing when it ends as it was when it began.
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We all - in the end - die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.
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Its not a story in which the characters grow up, but a story in which they draw on something already inside them, brought out by the particular circumstances. I want my young friends to live like that, and I think they, too, have such a wish.
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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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I currently live in the Plaza in New York and I love it - all that history, all those interesting stories.
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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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Stories that are real, that create you, rather than be created by you, are powerful.
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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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Jesmyn Ward returns to the world of her first two books, but here in the mode of non-fiction. A clear-eyed witness to the harrowing stories of 'men we reaped,' she quickens the dead and brings them, vividly alive again. An eloquent, grief-steeped account.
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That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it.
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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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Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision - a way to be more successful - they have to remain nimble enough to take it.
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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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To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.
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I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.
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Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.
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Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course.
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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.
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You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!
