Stories Quotes - Page 204

Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.

The stories about broadcast dying or it being overtaken by cable have stopped. Same goes for the stories about the Internet hurting our business.

Do you have to do murder? Do we have to do murder? Sure we have to do murder. There are only two subjects--a woman's chastity, and murder. Nobody's interested in chastity any more. Murder's all we got to write stories about.

I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.

Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.

The art is in preparing the content for optimal human consumption. The data doesn't just talk back to you. You collect, you analyze, you tell stories.

I guess that is my favorite thing - to make people laugh and also to maybe engage them emotionally and touch them somehow in telling the story.

I can only gesture at what makes a story good.

Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.

Obviously because of my personal connection to Mandela and having had his story as part of my childhood, I knew how awesome he was.

In my short stories there's a lot of focus on people successfully and not successfully responding to some sorts of discomforts or instabilities.

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

But I want to tell my stories, more than that, I have to in order to stay sane.

As society evolves, people are interested in a new take on an old beloved story.

You want a love story too? There's none to be had.

There's always a story in music, and it's expressed through my music.

Once you know the end of the story, every part of the story contains that end, and is only a way of reaching it.

My father once told me that a happy ending is just the place where you choose to stop telling the story. So this is where I choose to stop. More things are still going to happen, of course, some good, some bad. Some things never get any better. When people die they stay dead. None of us knows why we love, or why we stop loving, or why everyone we love we lose.

A happy ending isn't really the end. It's just the place where you choose to stop telling the story.

Who could ever tell a story complete?

You can't tell a story linearly if you want people to understand.

The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one.

When you're putting together a story, sometimes you just have to skip over the boring bits.

I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a bunch of stories and run off at the mouth. I'm a big tangent person.

All too many journalists seem to mistake scandal mongering for tenacious investigation, and far too many aspire to make themselves the story.