Stories Quotes - Page 185

Destiny doesn't control your life, but it does place you on a path. It's how you walk down that path that determines stories I tell.

The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.

I do try to plot about a chapter ahead once I get going. I have a list of upcoming scenes with little notes about them. But sometimes the story changes and I don't end up following that.

I'm a pantser. I try to plot. I always try to plot. I end up with a few paragraphs that basically outline the gist of the story.But I never get much beyond that. I get too impatient to write.

For me, the shaping of the story is more important than accuracy.

I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.

This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.

I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.

My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.

In creating the strange milieu in which your story takes place, you must first understand as well as you possibly can the familiar milieu in which your own life is taking place. Until you have examined and comprehended the world around you, you can't possibly create a complex and believable imaginary world.

When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed.

But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies.

You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it up into smaller chunks. But those smaller chunks aren't good old familiar short stories. Novels aren't built out of short stories. They are built out of scenes.

. . . All these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.

If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how "important" it is?

It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.

In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.

Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made.

I love to make stories out of license plates on cars about the initials and the numbers - my mum used to do that with me.

I can see a movie and believe the story and characterization and stay proud of it. It doesn't change. Even if it's unappreciated, that doesn't mean it can't be appreciated in the future.

Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original.

I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.

Terry was beside himself. Not literally. This story would be that much more painful if there were two Terrys, able to stand next to each other and simultaneously curse Leven.

Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like, become habits of metaphoric thought. In a fully mature literary tradition the writerenters intoa structure of traditional stories and images.

The technology is not only the way we change stories, but also changing the relationship to the consumer.