Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?
Work extra hard on the beginning of your story, so it snares reader's instantly. And know how you're going to end your story before you start writing. Without a sense of direction, you can get lost in the middle.
We are the stories we tell ourselves
The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.
Accents can be a great tool to tell a story - but if you do it wrong, it pulls you right out of the movie.
When you create something that connects, your story will travel faster than ever before.
As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.
Stories are invented: Juncker wants to introduce the euro everywhere or immediately deepen the EU - although I publicly stated the opposite that same day.
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
Give yourself permission to make the story bigger.
The narrative of our lives is a total construct. We get to choose what that is. That is something I've realized as I've gotten older. I have a lot of choices about the story that I'm telling myself about my life. So where do I find meaning?
WARNING If you dare to read this story, you become part of the Experiment
If it's commercial fiction that you want to write, it's story, story, story. You've got to get a story where if you tell it to somebody in a paragraph, they'll go, "Tell me more." And then when you start to write it, they continue to want to read more. And if you don't, it won't work.
History is His story.
Those who remember only that the Roosevelts served hot dogs to the royals will be fascinated by this well-researched account of an historic and ennobling relationship - a great story!
All my films are love stories.
I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.
Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory
There are enough stories about my family. We have all been in the public eye.
When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told or books weren't written, man would live like the beasts, only for the day.
Telling a one-sided story doesn't allow for others to have self-love.
How sacredly do [we] regard the good name of another?...Do we pass on spicy bits of entertaining conversation...repeating rumors and stories which have not been submitted to the test of truth?
And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only to the outside. Such is the riddle of life and the story of the passing of our days.
Goddess of song, teach me the story of a hero.
Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.
