Stories Quotes - Page 139

...I can write my own stories and I can write myself in.

The stories of The End of Free Love mark a great beginning. They are seductive and migratory, tapped into our earliest sense of the world. Steinberg inhabits our first bewilderments, the terrors and the tenderness that shape our lives. To read her is to fall out of the daily into a fresh elation.

I grew up in the era of the concept album. What I do now is pick up on singles, and they are their own complete stories; you don't necessarily have to hear the rest of the album because I don't think albums are created like that anymore. They get songs from all over the place.

Storytelling sticks in the mind because it attaches emotions to events, and that's the way we remember things. If you don't tell stories, no one will remember what you say.

Remember: A best-selling book usually follows a simple rule, It's a wonderful story, wonderfully told; not, It's a wonderfully told story.

I never know exactly where I'm going with a story, whether it's a short story or a novel. If I did I'd soon grow bored of it. The fun, for me, is in the finding out and the making sense of it.

You have to believe in yourself and always strive for the best. Whether that is getting the best actor, the most talented cinematographer, or the best location for your story, you have to have the hunger to want it and be willing to do what it takes to get it. A filmmaker should never be satisfied with their work. There should always be something that they want to improve on.

For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

Stories are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we're human.

I'm a storyline. I'm the chosen one for negative stories and controversial things. If I worried about it all, I would go insane.

I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour.

From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

Stories are like catechisms, but they're catechisms for your impulses, they're catechisms with flesh on.

The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories.

I don't think crucifixion is the answer. I believe in the resurrection. I like that part of the story.

Fleetwood Mac has been pretty truthful. Open about what we do. We've always done it from the inside out. Versus being pressured from the outside and changing the inside. And that's our story.

I like the comedians that go into detail and tell longer stories.

I think the story of 'Alice in Wonderland' in a way is a reminder that life is frightening, it can shift on you at any moment.

We are what we eat, it is often said, but of course that's only part of the story. We are what what we eat eats too.

Unless you can be in a place yourself and go through the subject of your story yourself, the next best thing is not to read a book about it, or see a movie about it, it's to talk to the people who've been there.

Failure is just a tax on the way to success. It is inevitable but it is not the whole story.

That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.

Human memory awakens and extinguishes at will. It dulls and sharpens actions, enlarges and shrinks those who perform them. It humbles and exalts as it desires. When summoned, it slips away, and when it returns, it will do so at the time and place that suits it. It recognizes no chief, no overseer, no classifier, no ruler. Stories mix and mingle, facts sprout new shoots. The situations and words and scents-oh, the scents!-encrusted there are stored in the most disorganized and wonderful manner, not chronologically, not according to size or importance or even the alphabet.