Stories Quotes - Page 256

Sometimes I do work on a longer manuscript in tandem with one or two shorter pieces - whether it's a short story or an essay (though I don't write many of the latter).

If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.

I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.

Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.

I really liked it. It was awesome - my first tabloid story. If you're going to have a tabloid story written about you, it might as well be with Johnny Depp.

As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct.

One of my favourite messages about The Pirate Fairy is that the story is about appreciating your own talents.

Pamela Palmer's stories catch you, captivate you, and never let you go.

We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.

Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories.

History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground.

Story is the mother of us all. First we wrap our lives in language and then we act on who we say we are. We proceed from the word into the world and make a world based on our stories.

We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.

Story is the mother of us all, for we become who we say we are.

I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.

People are interested if you tell stories well and relevantly.

I chose to tell a personal story. When you tell a movie like this that's as emotionally charged as this is, it's a risk. As one of my great cinematic heroes, Francis Coppola, would say, "If you aren't taking the highest, greatest risk, then why are you a filmmaker?"

This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has.

In stand-up you can go either way. It's live. Somebody might say something in the crowd, you might respond to it. But in a movie you could be spontaneous too. But you pretty much have to stick to that story or that scene or that script, but in stand-up you can go wherever you want to. It's more freedom.

After all, it was only a story,' I said, determined to prove her wrong. 'All manner of terrible things may happen in a story. They may be startling at the time, but it passes. One gets caught up in the narrative, but the dangers aren't real, are they? Things happen in any way the storyteller chooses. It is all just made up.

In TV, you can really get into not only great characters, but also the relationships. There are all of the backstories and all of the relationships that you have with every person in your life, and the relationships those people have with each other. It's just more dense and there's more time to tell stories.

What's so great about TV is that you can get an opportunity to tell really rich stories, over the course of so many hours. It's like a novel of this type of medium.

I don't know the politics of Hollywood. Am I hungry for great material? Every actor is. How I can get to it, that's another story.

It's always been difficult for me to find funding for a story that I want to follow in real time. Financiers are hesitant to support a project when they don't know the outcome.

I have always thought that if you can give viewers the sense of being there a story can be very compelling.