Stories Quotes - Page 221

Stories are one thing that will be constant in life. Whether told, written, reenacted they are a fundamental part of human nature.

I have repeatedly said, when asked, that if the stories about me helped inspired our troops and rally a nation, then perhaps there was some good.

Violet, the Dowager Countess: “I mean, one way or another, everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden.

I want to be involved in a story that makes a difference.

Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and wonderful - those stories, they're just incredible.

I prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story.

The stories tend to be what I work on when I'm stuck. Something will just pop into my head and I'll think that's more of a story.

I think the path to becoming a writer has become more through the novel. It's easier to get a novel published than a book of stories, obviously, especially through big publishers.

I'm a professional. So before I published any novels, I'd always been writing stories.

The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.

All we have is the story we tell.

I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the stories had all been written.

Narrative stories are nothing but models of karma and causality - how one thing leads to another. And a lot of narrative fiction is about causality that we don't immediately understand.

It was shocking to see a leg! You've never seen a leg in these stories. We made it a little saloon girl. We played up on many elements because everything is just very covered and the tights are very thick and heavy. And then to have it all fell apart, absolutely, we wanted to see the leg!

I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be part of something like that, where there's an agenda there that's not about telling a story, where its someone getting on a soapbox and preaching their own beliefs onto somebody.

'Great Expectations' is one of the greatest stories.

I'd just find a story in Canada and come and do it. Combine harvester banger - actually I've done that: banger racing up in Red Deer [in Alberta, for his 1998 doc series Extreme Machines].

You take out an injunction against somebody or some organisation and immediately news of that injunction and the people involved and the story behind the injunction is in a legal-free world on Twitter and the Internet. It's pointless.

While we do have 50 years of terrific Avengers stories, many of which our writing staff has written, along the way, this has to live in its own world.

When we approached the Man of Action guys, we said, "We're not really interested in what's come before, except in the way that we want to make sure that it feels like it's Marvel's Avengers Assemble. From that point on, this is your cast. Go to it and tell great stories."

Do you want this to be a love story?

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?

Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.

I love how a story can help someone discuss something they otherwise would not.

If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.