Stories Quotes - Page 28

There are no beginnings, not even to stories. There are only places where you make an entrance into someone else's life and either stay or turn and go away.

People in life take on certain stories and say, 'I'm going to be defined by this story and I'm going to live up to every inch of this story.' Sometimes you realize the story isn't fulfilling you and in fact you're not living the life that you're given.

When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.

A fetish is a story masquerading as an object.

I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it's immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it.

Stories aren't the icing on the cake; they are the cake!

Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.

Everything we know has come from stories that have been told over and over again as truth. Those stories turn into history.

Everybody has different stories about where I came from. Nobody really knows.

Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.

Some people just see the glory and they don't want to know about the story.

Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

We all create stories to protect ourselves.

You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.

Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

Everything has a purpose. And that purpose has a story that goes along with it. It just depends on what your passion is.

For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its author like a soap bubble blown from a clay pipe.

When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe you felt, tucked under the covers, or curled in someone's arms, as a story was spun around you like a web.

Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.

It's not whether you won or lost, but how many bad-beat stories you were able to tell.

Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.

What you don't want is to repeat a formula over and over or impose a formula to a movie that...when you impose yourself and you impose a formula and you're not open to explore and to find what is right for the movie, I think you're doing a disservice to the story and what you're trying to express.

When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.

I would sit in my room and become hysterical about the wild incredible story I was writing. And I thought I was writing realism. It never occurred to me that I was writing absurdity. Realism and absurdity are so similar in the lives of American blacks one cannot tell the difference.

One of the ways that your project, your personal healing, or your social invention can change the world is through story. But even if no one ever learns of it, even if it is invisible to every human on Earth, it will have no less of an effect.