Stories Quotes - Page 107

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.

The most questionable thing I did was make Superman a government agent. If this had been a Superman story, I'd never have done that - and I know that, because I have a Superman story I want to tell someday. In this story, Batman was the hero, so the world was built around him.

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

If I told you the whole story it would never end...What's happened to me has happened to a thousand woman.

Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.

Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself - because you cant possibly please everyone.

Marketing, when done well, is about story telling.

War all comes down to these little tiny stories about people's lives that will never be the same.

One of my favorite things to do is to craft and to write songs and tell stories, and another thing is to really just flip out basically, and release kind of my unruly energies.

My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.

I used to feel that if I say something's wrong, I have to say how it could be made right. But what I learned from Kurt Vonnegut was that I could write stories that say I may not have a solution, but this is wrong - that's good enough.

Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture.

There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.

What happened?" Bailey asks. "That is somewhat difficult to explain," Tsukiko answers. "It is a long and complicated story." "And you're not going to tell me, are you?" She tilts her head a bit ... "No, I am not," she says. "Great," Bailey mutters under his breath... "The bonfire exploded? How?" "Remember when I said it was difficult to explain? That has not changed.

Improvise. Write your own damn story.

I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.

If somebody has a chance to put my food in their mouth, that tells the story.

Don't go into great detail describing places and things, unless you're ­Margaret Atwood and can paint scenes with language. You don't want descriptions that bring the action, the flow of the story, to a standstill.

I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.

This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.

I don't have a story about an epiphany in which I suddenly realised I wanted to be an actor. It was much more a case of the idea dawning on me gradually.

I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it?

God made (human beings) because he loves stories.