Stories Quotes - Page 188

I consider myself foremost a novelist with the intent of crafting stories that people will remember.

What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original.

If you have no conflict, you have no story. That's number one. That's a rule of novels.

Whenever I work on a film, I have three rules. Only three and I tell them to every screenwriter. I say let's retain the spirit and the intent of the overall story. Let's make it the best film that we possibly can.

Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end?

In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.

Working on the plot/story idea for my next novel ... It always takes time.

I hope to be remembered as an author who defined and exemplified excellence in crafting the modern love story.

Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.

I only like naturalistic stories. I love short, fantastic stories that cast a spell over the reader, that transport you instantly to another place with another set of rules, somewhere imagined by someone else.

I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.

I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on the argument or the story.

We tell stories. We tell stories to pass the time, to leave the world for a while, or go more deeply into it. We tell stories to heal the pain of living.

Americans are in need of very objective information, and sometimes it's easier to absorb the message through entertainment and through a great story than through the news outlets [where] everything is sensationalized. Not only are you getting information that sort of defies stereotypes, but you're also getting a wonderful story with hopefully good performances.

I love playing and chatting with children...feed ing and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family has troubled me throughout my...life.

I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels.

I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mild cautionary notes, but they're not moral. They don't impart any Judeo-Christian ethic of any kind.

High-level actors can be all about their close-ups and the size of their trailers. I'd heard these horror stories of how a really powerful actor can come in and change your script.

But the smoking is very frustrating. Who knows where it will go; where the story will go; where the character will go? There's still lots of options.

I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.

You start as an audience member and create a world you're interested in, and then you move into the telling of those stories, bringing what has interested you as an audience member.

Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.

There are a lot of artists who've said they'd like to work with me. To be honest, I'm not sure there is such a thing as an inappropriate artist. The trick is matching the artist with a story.

As far as I'm concerned, the world is composed of stories. For architects, the world is composed of buildings, for actors the world is composed of theatres, or whatever... For me, the world is simply composed of stories, when I look, that's what I see.

I love mythic stuff. I love playing with gods, I love playing with myths. A lot of it has to do with that they're the basic places stories come from. They're the clay that you make the bricks out of.