Stories Quotes - Page 238

It's important to tell your story. It's important to listen.

Our stories can set us free. When we set them free.

The more personal you get, the more universal a story you end up telling.

Ultimately, what audiences respond to is truth. Even as fantastical as the story can be, and out there, at its core, it's dealing with loss, madness and mortality.

I think this is pretty clear, but maybe not to everybody: Despite the fact that the work is personal or taken from life, it's not about me telling my personal story.

No." Mosca bit her lip and shook her head firmly. Books no longer seemed quite enough. I don’t want a happy ending, I want more story.

True stories seldom have endings. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.

In Mosca’s experience, a ‘long story’ was always a short story someone did not want to tell.

The approach to "building" a story with words and phrases is no different than "building" a painting with brushes and pigments.

I thought that one of the things that we were losing sight of is the basic reasons that we do protect free speech and freedom of the press and the essentiality and centrality in our lives of really giving broad protection to freedom of speech and freedom of the press in America. I thought I could do that by telling stories of some of the cases that established those principles on a real life on the ground basis.

The meaning of the story is the story.

You ought to be able to discover something from your stories. If you don't, probably nobody else will.

I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.

When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is not a very good one.

This human condition and people's stories. That's what I love. The other thing is traveling.

Human beings. People's stories. That's really what gets me excited.

I used to love to make things - you couldn't drag me away for dinner because I was always writing a story or something.

What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.

You realize time isn't just a period that you tell a story within - it becomes a major character in the film. There is no beginning, middle, end because there is always stuff beginning and ending simultaneously.

Maybe because I'm a child of the 80's, but for me a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original then you don't understand the second one.

I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to.

The press was all over to get a picture of me. It got to the point where they were all over my house, following me to work... Then Tom Brokaw and everybody else was doing stories, 'A star is born.'

Fiction is my home, I came from fiction, I like to tell stories.

I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.

I love seeing the light go on in aspiring writers' eyes when you point out ways to improve their prose or their story - when they get it.