I'll take any story if it's good.
The truth is, normal might take years. Normal might never happen. But it’s definitely not going to happen if I lounge around here watching soaps and avoiding life. I’m going to school today, end of story.
The life story of the five main characters and the secondary characters around them allows Jonathan Franzen to present the full impetus and extent of the world picture of the West at the end of the 20th century.
I try to tell a story musically in a song.
My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end.
Those who cook up stories will get into hot water.
Most of the pain we feel is nothing more than a story that needs telling.
I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting it was never a big deal.
At some point if you had gone into all of our stories in depth that would've just kind of been all over the place.
We need to continue to strive to tell these different stories.”
…my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me . . .” "I’ve never much cared for horror stories.
For a story to be told, it must be told properly, and to tell a story properly, it must be told with respect.
And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.
I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.
I really like Septimus Heap. he is my favorite guy in the story. I should make you all read it.
Happy endings are just stories that haven't finished yet.
I've tried to live my life right, just like a story.
Im not really devoted or specified towards any specific genre at all. I really like it all. Theres good storytelling in all the genres, you know. I just want to tell good stories and do good work.
I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.
There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.
Usually in stories there are big problems in the beginning or couples are pulling away, there's a lot of bitterness.
I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.
I assemble stories-me and a hundred million other people-at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line.
An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.
Literature makes history come to life. It is maybe the most accurate depiction of history, especially literature that was written in the time period depicted in the story.
