Stories Quotes - Page 153

I worked in script development, many years ago, and read a lot of scripts. Between that and the scripts I've read as an actor, and I'm a writer as well, I think I have a pretty good sense about whether the bones of a story are there and whether the structure is intact.

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

The history of the United States is the story of people of many backgrounds.

Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.

There is no absolute beginning to any story, after all. There is only the moment you begin watching.

In a story, nothing is real until it is acted upon.

Everyone's story matters.

If you really want to tell stories, do it and don't be dissuaded.

We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear it more than once.

What one wants to do with stories is screw them up.

Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest

Technique is of less interest than character and story.

Speaking generally, I think it's useful to acknowledge explicitly the power imbalance between a journalist and the protagonists in a story about poor people, even to make that imbalance part of the story - and to redress it, narratively, where you can.

I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.

If you haven't got an idea, write a story anyway.

Dear doctor, you must not only let the patient tells his story, but you should also try to understand it.

Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.

Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."

I like films that go a little more daring visually, and story-based stuff that usually reflects pretty closely to what real life is.

That's a frustration sometimes, that certain directors that I'd like to work with, they just aren't doing stories that I'm sort of castable in. Not always, but sometimes I have that frustration.

I love theaters. I love the event of going there and seeing a movie with a lot of people. I like the community coming around the story.

It was a big story and yesterday's soup. Who cares?

A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.

For me, I look at a project that has a story that's going to resonate in some way. It doesn't have to be about a message. It doesn't have to have some underlying theme of overwhelming importance.

Some of the best things that have happened in my stories have happened seemingly of their own accord. The writer becomes a listener, just writing things down as they come.