Stories Quotes - Page 229

When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that in literature, but still, a story should feel like a conversation. It's not a lecture.

I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.

Some people connect with a story and may find between the lines something that might be useful to him or her, but that's not the intention of the author, I think. At least not mine.

Before I start writing, before I have an idea of where and when the story happens, I research it thoroughly.

I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.

I do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I'm writing post-colonial literature. I don't know what I'm writing. That's the business of professors and critics. My job is to tell a story, and that's it.

I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.

If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.

Author's Notes: This story starts with section 6. This is not a mistake. I have my own subtle reasoning. So, just read, and enjoy.

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.

Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.

For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person and things happen to them and then something big happens and they realize something new.

I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.

Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with Highway, there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended Highway to be the first film that I ever made. Didnt happen.

So I need the story, Jenna. I need the truth. Right, like the two are the same thing.

Big media are all about the angle, the spin. Look to the overarching theme that runs through each and every news story. Be hip to the meta-narrative peddled.

I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.

I have one guy that I really have to talk to once a day, and if I don't talk to him once a day, I really feel like something is not completed. This is, like, an attraction story.

If you really listen to my music my music is more like stories than party records. I never made party records.

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

Hollywood is obsessed with police stories.

I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'

You had bands like D.O.A., or Black Flag, and a whole network opened up to trailblazer a counter culture movement. I'm more interested in the less sensational type of stories.

Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.