Stories Quotes - Page 133

Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.

In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.

Money comes, money goes. But your story stays with you the rest of your life.

Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not know they knew. Or did not realize everyone else knew, too. This produces a warm sense of fellow feeling and is the best a writer can do.

You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in your society, I am sure there will be many actors from our part of the world that will be acting in Hollywood films.

Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.

A story isn't a charcoal sketch, where every stroke lies on the surface to be seen. It's an oil painting, filled with layers that the author must uncover so carefully to show its beauty.

Everybody's got a story that could break your heart.

I'm interested in stories. I think I'm a bit of a pathfinder.

As ever, Morpurgo's warmth and humanity suffuse a story of courage, love and hope.

Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?

He had been my almost. My might-have-been. I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss. Still, I collected kiss stories. -Susie Salmon

They weren't true stories; they were better than that.

In order to tap into the power of dreaming, we must connect not only to the human story, but to all of nature and creation as well

I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.

I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)

I think when I finally got it in my head that I was going to do the story, I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.

I try to turn a written thing, when I'm in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.

We [me and friends] like to have surprising stories, but the dynamic and the friendship is the same. When you go out with your crew of friends and you get into trouble, at the end of the night when you come home, you're still the same crew of friends. It's just the story that you have to tell.

I'm the only Mauritanian filmmaker so it wouldn't make sense to make a film in France. I could shoot outside of my own country if the story was something that called for it. Africa really has to be the reason for me to make a new film.

You never know what's going to happen, so I get up at 6 a.m. every morning. It's a new wakeup call for me, for sure. But you just want to be polished. That way, if anything happens, I'm ready to go. I'm not going to sit in a makeup chair for an hour and be like, "Then I'll go get the story."

I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.

I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.

You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.