Stories Quotes - Page 242

I always let the characters guide the stories. They really let me know what they want to say and what action they want to happen.

I remember having been with this book [Into the Forest] for a long time, and I remember the moment that she [Patricia Rozema] sent me the script and what it was like to read it for the first time. I just was so blown away by how she managed to capture the story and their relationship to each other, and the nuances of that.

I've never done a movie in that genre, and I love a lot of those movies. I watched the director's [David Freyne] short film [The First Wave], which I loved. And the script was just so good. He's found this way to tell a new story.

All these lives," she said. "All the stories we never know." (125)

I have to pay attention to what I have felt and observed, then push these responses to an extreme while keeping the story within the realm of being psychologically and emotionally true.

She became a story, one I have mostly forgotten. One I can't end because she died a long time ago.

Poignant, earthy, intensely human, Letters From A Stranger is a love story that is as unusual and courageous as its characters.

Felipe and I, as we discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-to-belly success story.

This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. (p.237)

Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?

Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I always do characters, and the arc of the story, first... You can't do anything without a story arc. Where is it going to begin, where will it end.

Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.

Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been reached, must be seen to have been from the start inevitable.

You can just say the word "hair" to a woman, and she tells you the story of her life.

I love stories about misfits and underdogs.

I feel like there's more of a need to tell more optimistic stories.

While Max appears to greatly admire Wallace as a writer and feel compassion for him as a man, he is never starry-eyed, or pulls his punches. Every Love Story is a Ghost Story is as illuminating, multifaceted, and serious an estimation of David Foster Wallace's life and work as we can hope to find.

I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So that you could prepare yourselves while there was still time. To live? I don't attach any importance to my life any more. I'm alone. No, I wanted to come back, and to warn you. And see how it is, no one will listen to me.

We've sort of agreed that the account of Adam and Eve is a story.

The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history.

The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition.

Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.

The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.