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You can't regret a whole period in your life. . . . It's part of who you are, one of your stories.
I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.
When you're a writer, you're always looking for conflict. It's conflict that drives great stories.
The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.
Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.
I told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own.
I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.
If everything goes right, we get a good experience. If everything goes wrong, we get a good story.
There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.
I beat a story to within an inch of its life - that's when I know its done. Not before, not after.
A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.
We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail
My songs always tend to have a good element to the story. That is who I am - an optimistic person.
I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.
We have a rule in our franchise that there is no canon. You as a player decide what your story is.
When I was four I read the story of horton hears a who and I cried. I wanted to eat that elephant.
If you're going to have someone win because of their story, go write a screenplay about your life.
I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.
As a filmmaker, you look for a story, and the story has to have conflict and a match of opposites.
Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.
Stories are one of the greatest gifts we can give to our children. Stories are equipment for life.
I love the thriller genre generally. I like murder mysteries and those kinds of adventure stories.
I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.
I think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.
It seems like as soon as you have written something, it dictates a story. So I need to be careful.
If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.
If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way
The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
People are moved by my story, but they're only moved by my story because of what I do on the court.
My responsibility is to get the story right. I can't predict or be concerned with the consequences.
For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.
Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.
Stories are more than compelling facts. People remember stories more than they remember statistics.
The stories we love may not always fit neatly into a single time line, but they will always matter.
The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.
When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.
We need to celebrate stories by women, for women, as just one more way to redress gender injustice.
The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard.
I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.
I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.
I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.
Us writers all like each other and want to write stories with each other; we're having a good time.
Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.
I got into [producing] to be part of stories that wouldn't necessarily be right for me as an actor.
Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.
I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.
It's a complicated story [hoe I got into music ]. I actually wrote a book about it, titled For Sue.