Stories Quotes - Page 226

My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone.

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

Zachary Jernigan's short stories are in deep conversation with the history of the genre while maintaining a thoroughly modern sensibility. Here’s a new writer who has found his voice. Listen to him and enjoy!

It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.

About First Landing by Robert Zubrin: Someday I'd like to read a story about competent people on Mars.

Romeo and Juliet *died*. I always liked that in a teen romance story.

The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.

The skyscraper - any building over seven stories really - will come to be seen as an experimental building type that doesn't work well in an energy-starved economy.

It's a very remarkable story." "Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away.

What is my intention being a filmmaker? To make as much money as possible, or get as much attention as possible? It's not really either of those things. Now I can tell the stories that I want to tell.

That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the same stories.

I just think it's a great world to tell stories in, to tell cool stories: money, sex, fame, and scandal. Those are great subject matters to work with.

The problem with trying to make a film good and have it work for an audience is the problem of trying to tell a story well. The shape or the color of it doesn't matter.

I saw a story in the Los Angeles Times that 40 percent of the viewers are men. It didn't really surprise me.

I'm inspired by almost everything I come across in life, and one way or another they find themselves sneaking into my stories.

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.

Who does it hurt? That's who the story is about.

What I do know is that with a celebrity's death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death - it takes a life that is filled with complicated talent, hope, success and drive and reduces it to the 'story.

The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.

All stories are true. But some of them never happened.

A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.

I like fictional stories - like, things that never happened but the seed of it starts as real.

Violence is used to portray what happens in a film. It only helps portray the actors and what they do. I think it is more about the story, when you have something to play off of.

You have formal rehearsal, a lot of things you don't have in movies - which is, you have to formally rehearse. You have to know your back story, discuss it, and almost everybody onstage has to know each other's [story], so that when it comes time to actually do it, you can throw it all away. That's the way I like to - and I didn't realize until very recently - that's the way I like to prepare for movies.

Television is competitive now, and the great stories live on television right now. I'm finding that I'm enjoying television more than film, these days. That was my motivation to take a TV show.