Stories Quotes - Page 97

What's important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can never change. But the more times you tell it, the more changes will occur. A story is a living thing; it moves and shifts

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.

I love writing. I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing.

I always tell this story: When I started, the woman went to the store to buy a dress. She saw it in pink and red, and then she remembered that the husband, who is probably going to pay for the dress, loves it in pink. So she buys the pink. Today, the same woman goes to the store and remembers the husband likes pink, and she buys the red.

A story that must be told never forgives silence.

If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.

The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.

That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the story, which is what you're taught, that cinema is the language of images and you really should be able to make a film with no dialogue and tell a story.

I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch - it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time.

Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101.

I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?

My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end.

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.

All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.

I'm living in Los Angeles, I'm in films and I'm on television, and I'm working with actors and telling stories. I'm living the fantasy. My worst day is a great day.

As a journalist, my job is to be dispassionate. Suddenly to be the centre of a story and to be crying, it made me feel very insecure.

You'll lose your reader if you are vague, not clear, and not present. We love details, personal connections, stories.

When readers close the covers on Running the Rift, I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.

I'm looking for stories that make me sit up and take notice. For engagement with language and style in ways that the genre doesn't see enough of.

Scripture is, at its heart, the great story that we sing in order not just to learn it with our heads but to become part of it through and through, the story that in turn becomes part of us.

Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.

The myth of the inevitability of economic globalization is based largely on the work of Milton Friedman, and easily the most underreported story of our time is that the current economy proves Friedman flatly wrong.

What you'll gain is the macro story. You'll get a good command of that. And what you might lose is some of the fun of it.