Stories Quotes - Page 75

This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.

Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.

Stories about ourselves and about the world continually arise in our minds and shape our beliefs about reality.

If you focus on literature through only one small element of it, like the more scientific element of linguistics, then where is the joy that brought us literature in the first place, which is to have a story?

If you say you're worthy, you are. If you say you're not worthy, you're not. Either way you will live into your story.

At the end of the day, 'Rocky' is a love story, and he could never have reached the final bell without Adrian.

Before you ignore another homeless person on the street, just remember that that could be someone's father or someone's mother and they have a story.

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.

[The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.

Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.

There's nothing that makes my day more than getting an e-mail from some random person in the universe who just bought an iPad over in the UK and tells me the story about how it's the coolest product they've ever brought home in their lives. That's what keeps me going.

I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue.

Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story

When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.

The history of life is more adequately represented by a picture of 'punctuated equilibria' than by the notion of phyletic gradualism. The history of evolution is not one of stately unfolding, but a story of homeostatic equilibria, disturbed only 'rarely' (i.e. rather often in the fullness of time) by rapid and episodic events of speciation.

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.

Everything has changed and we're all living in one city now. What happens somewhere affects things everywhere, so I have to be careful and whatever stories I work on, I want them to have redeeming moral values.

I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.

There are many animation films out there for teens, tweens and family but there are not that many real life stories.

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

If everything goes right, we get a good experience. If everything goes wrong, we get a good story.

Make the customer the hero of your brand's story.