Stories Quotes - Page 53

Every leader is telling a story... about what he or she values.

I always try to tell the story the best possible way. I create the mood for each scene in a way that the audience feels that they are right there with me and they feel actually in the mood that was right for the scene.

We are defined by the stories we tell ourselves.

[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

When a bunch of stuff is happening on set, you have to remember the grander purpose: you're telling a story, so you have to get to that moment, and that takes supreme focus.

I am a storyteller, and I grew up with a father who told big-fish stories, so storytelling is very much a part of me. It was a part of my family.

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.

All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact.

Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.

I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with question [why I'm write these stories]. It's not a question that you would ask a guy that writes detective stories or the guy that writes mystery stories, or westerns, or whatever. But it is asked of the writer of horror stories because it seems that there is something nasty about our love for horror stories, or boogies, ghosts and goblins, demons and devils.

This moment will just be another story someday.

These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.

Everybody wants to feel that you're writing to a certain demographic because that's good business, but I've never done that ... I tried to write stories that would interest me. I'd say, what would I like to read?... I don't think you can do your best work if you're writing for somebody else, because you never know what that somebody else really thinks or wants.

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

Parineeta is a classic love story.

If you like a story that's totally different and won't know which way it's going... where it's go ing to end up and which way it's going to take you, then I think my work fits the bill.

I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.

It's all about letting the story take over.

I have no story. My story goes from day to day.

When you change your NOW story, you instantly change your past story and your future story.

A story can sing the truth and not just tell it.

I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.

Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first and that's why they're still the best ones.

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.