Stories Quotes - Page 96

Perhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [. . . ] because one isn't always equal to oneself.

I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.

I like to see love stories: romantic comedy or romantic drama.

So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression.

It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.

That's the trouble with a story spinner. You never know what's real and what's made up. Even when they are telling the truth, they can't stop themselves from spinning it into something better; something prettier, with more of a pattern to it.

A story, to me, has a particular sprite, like the angel of the spirit of that story - and it's my job to attend to what it wants to do.

This story is about love, which means that it is also about hate.

We wait until Pandora's box is opened before we say, "Wow, maybe we should understand what's in that box." This is the story of humans on every problem.

Structure is important in film, but there's often structure to be found in the most unlikely of places! It's quite possible to build a structured story and retain idiosyncrasy.

I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.

Conservative talk radio works because there are lots of conservatives who are convinced that they are not getting the whole story from the regular media.

I don't really think in terms of genre, I think in terms of story and character.

Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch.

In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.

Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.

You hear this story that we're all on the left, but when there's a demonstration, you count how many actors actually come out. If there's a half dozen, that would be a big day.

What you never want to do is have a story that doesn't track emotionally, because then you're going joke to joke and you're going to fatigue the audience. The only thing that's going to string them to the next joke is how successful the previous joke is.

The truth of the story lies in the details.

For me it is really important to have a story with blood in the veins, there are bad tempers and good tempers.

Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.

Stories don’t always have happy endings.

Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.

I never work from an outline, and often I dont know how the story will end.

People must be able to use their voice, tell their stories, have their experiences recognized and their voices heard.