Stories Quotes - Page 99

There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.

I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.

Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.

If they're going to write a story they're going to write the story whether it's true or not

Stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them.

If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story.

If you follow the trail of your own enthusiastically repeated stories, you will begin to rediscover the things that invigorate and enliven you.

It's the way that I think about the world, and the way that I like to tell stories - I don't think you should get too heavy. There's enough out there, in the world, with violence. I think that comedy lightens the heaviness [of the world].

Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts.

You're far from this. This story is just another few hundred pages of your mind.

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories... We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that's out there.

Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.

Those stories weren't being written at all - stories about women's inner lives and outer activism. We've come miles and miles, but we still don't have an equal rights amendment yet. We don't have equal pay yet. There's a lot of blind misogyny that's not personal, but institutionalized. We still have work to do, but even just looking at those old Ms. Magazines is a cool thing to do - to see how daring they were. They just went right into the belly of the beast.

Writing the opening lines of a story is a bit like starting to ski at the steepest part of a hill. You must have all your skills under control from the first instant.

Every Story is different, Every Movie is different, Every Director is different.

In France, you have 900 years of romantic love going back to the troubadours and minstrels that wrote stories of Lancelot and Guinevere. You have gallantry at the highest level.

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

Whoever wants to tell a variety of stories ought to have a variety of beginnings.

Let go of your story so the Universe can write a new one for you.

The weirdest love stories are always the best.

It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can "take over" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times.

It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want.

The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don’t ever ask for the true story.

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.

My favorite part is being engaged with somebody's story and life, and getting a laugh with people I have a tremendous amount of respect for or not, and being challenged by the immediacy of conversation.