Stories Quotes - Page 146

The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about.

Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.

The Scripture stories do not, like Homer’s, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant us—they seek to subject us, and if we refuse to be subjected we are rebels.

I`ve realized that in all the great stories, even if there`s a happily-ever-after ending, there`s something sad.

It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing.

every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?

I believe in the story [ of Adam and Eve]. For me, it's a story.

The short story, free from the longuers of the novel is also exempt from the novel's conclusiveness--too often forced and false: it may thus more nearly than the novel approach aesthetic and moral truth.

The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form.

Instead of making up stories, stay with the facts. For example, "I am ruined" is a story. It limits you and prevents you from taking effective action. "I have 50 cents left in my bank account" is a fact.

Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.

What appear to us to be causal explanations are in fact just stories—descriptions of what happened that tell us little, if anything, about the mechanisms at work.

I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories.

To be completely honest, I just like whatever tells a good story. Put me in whatever setting, scenario, genre. If you're telling a good story, it's great and it's fun to get caught up in.

New content online no longer requires new stories or information, just new ways of linking things to other things. Or as the social networks might put it to you, 'Jane is now friends with Tom.' The connection has been made; the picture is getting more complete.

Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in a row in the early 30's and, although I was still in my 20's, I demanded and received approval of cast, story and director. I don't know how I got away with it, but I did!

In movies, you can basically buy the audience into the theater. If you spend enough money on visual effects, even if you are lacking in story and character, you might still pull it off.

Why write stories? To join the conversation.

Die and born again, die and born again. It's the story of my life.

I don't have this feeling like, oh, I want to live in the United States and make movies and become famous just because the money is here. I like to make movies that tell stories that I care about.

I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do.

I just think Josephine Baker life story needs to be done. I think she was an extraordinary woman. To see someone who was basically a showgirl have the kind of lifestyle she had was extraordinary. I really think she made her own lifestyle.

I felt a kinship with country music, because country has lyrics that tell stories

I've taken all the scandals back and made them part of my story and my music.

It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually exclusive.