Stories Quotes - Page 169

Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world.

Whatever kind of story you're telling, whether it's a genre piece for a comic book or whatever it is, it has importance because it's all a metaphor for the existence of our being.

Either you’re going to tell stories that spread, or you will become irrelevant.

I've tried to consider stories that I have read, making them into films, but they would turn out unnatural. If a producer wants that, he should call other people. Not me.

There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in America but from the story of cinema.

The Western, when I do one, will be one long, continuous story.

I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.

The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening.

Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't know all the background can understand them.

I'm sorry to burden you,' she said. She felt like a crybaby. 'What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them?

I will do almost anything for the sake of a joke or for the sake of someone's real belief in something to help tell a story.

I get stage fright with short stories. For me it feels like standup comedy: kill or die. I'm more confident when I begin a novel because I know I have space to fail.

I can't say L'Etranger influenced me to write, but for the first time I considered the possibility of telling a story that resembled my own experiences in my own voice.

My greatest interest in it was certainly not to avoid those things that were going to be controversial about the family but the interest I had in the story was predominantly what he was pursuing and not as much what he was fleeing.

Comics can do any kind of story. It's words and pictures, the only things it can't do are sing and dance.

Why would you expect people who don't know any history to be able to report on history? Why would you expect people who are shallow and report only today's exciting story, to be followed by tomorrow's exciting story, to have any sense of depth or any sense of background?

Everyone was very deeply involved in the world of 'The Lord of the Rings'. From the wardrobe department to lighting, all were fascinated with the story. This is something that does not happen usually.

If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.

Cure for writer's block: blow something up(in the story)

Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.

Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them.

It seems like everyone's got an agenda, and the agenda seems to be selling magazines or air time with sensational stories.

Having that North Star for every story [about Batman] is really key for me. It allows me to go farther and farther off the reservation.

One of the things that's great is that Batman is a character that lends himself to very personal stories.

Jordie Bellaire knows how to tell a story with color.