Stories Quotes - Page 95

I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into princes, whether that has a sort of insidious affect on rationality, I'm not sure. Perhaps it's something for research.

Believe that story false that ought not to be true.

The only question that matters with regard to a religion and its mythology is “What do these stories mean?

Even if you're an observer of a story that you yourself made up, you're still very much connected to it. You love it and feel it, no less than somebody's who's writing from their direct 'I' or 'me.' I'm just so much more interesting in stories than confessions.

I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.

As a child I loved ghost stories.

One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an old young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell.

When a reader finishes a wonderful story and lays it aside, he should have to pause for a minute and collect himself.

I've done a few movies where I really liked the project, but I wasn't sure about the director, and I still did it and my instinct was right, in the beginning. Even though it was a good story, the guy still didn't really know what he was doing.

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!

A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery.

Any carefully planned thing destroys the creativity. You can't think your way through a story; you have to live it. So, you don't build a story; you allow it to explode.

There is only one type of story in the world-your story.

[James] Baldwin was a revelation for me, the kind of revelation that follows you all your life because you can go back to it. It's not just about stories. It's about philosophy. It's about criticizing the world. It's about deconstructing the world around you.

Any time I've taken the mound, it's always been the old Samson-and-Goliath story written about me.

The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves determine the quality of the selves we imagine we are. The stories we tell about others determine the quality of our relationships with them.

The whole story of human history is: The blasphemy of today is the commonplace of tomorrow.

In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.

It's the same old story, all you think about is money.

Everybody is a story.

It has been said that sometimes we need a story more than food in order to live. p 374

Facts bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom.

I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports.

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.