Stories Quotes - Page 126

If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.

If you want to change society then you must tell an alternative story.

Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.

Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.

Within our whole universe the story only has the authority to answer that cry of heart of its characters, that one cry of heart of each of them: "Who am I?"

All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.

I wish people were willing to dig a little deeper than the surface elements of a premise before tossing one story in with another.

The bible must be seen in a cultural context. It didn't just happen. These stories are retreads. But, tell a Christian that -- No, No! What makes it doubly sad is that they hardly know the book, much less its origins.

My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever

All of a sudden, I was hearing stories about how difficult I was to work with, ridiculous rumors about drugs and what a diva I was. I never had to go to rehab or a program.

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

I dont go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.

They'll probably start working on my movie sometime... They are doing a complete movie of my life story. It will not be based on any negativity. It will be more about my life, from a kid, how I came up and why I came through.

If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone.

The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That's where the story is going and how it's going to end. Or else you'll go off in a hundred different directions.

The story, from beginning to end, I found again in a heart of a friend.

The short story, its course plotted and its form proscribed, has become too efficient... but efficiency is not the most, it is perhaps the least, important among the undoubted elements of good literature

I want to be remembered as someone who tried to bring the story of our ancestors to the broadest possible audience. I want to be remembered as a man who loved his race.

Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.

No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is effectively impossible to link fossils into chains of cause and effect in any valid way... To take a line of fossils and claim that they represent a lineage is not a scientific hypothesis that can be tested, but an assertion that carries the same validity as a bedtime story-amusing, perhaps even instructive, but not scientific.

It's hard enough to tell good stories about people who analyze information for a living. It's even harder to do a good show about people who think for a living.

Some photographs are like a Chekhov short story or a Maupassant story. They're quick things and there's a whole world in them. But one is unconscious of it while shooting.

You're only as good as your last story.

Every story is a story about death. But perhaps, if we are lucky, our story about death is also a story about love.

It is an ancient story Yet is it ever new.