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No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.
I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day.
When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.
We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.
It's always a long goddamn story. Every time you ask anyone anything really important, it's a long story.
One of the things that's great is that Batman is a character that lends himself to very personal stories.
I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.
In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why.
Comics can do any kind of story. It's words and pictures, the only things it can't do are sing and dance.
make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.
What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.
Fundamentally, Eva is just my life copied out onto film. I'm [still] alive, so the story hasn't finished.
The more story-appeal there is in the picture or in the photograph, the more people would look at your ad
We are now debating and talking about a story [Russian hacker attack] based on something that isn't true.
That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.
Dear doctor, you must not only let the patient tells his story, but you should also try to understand it.
We, as producers, want to tell the best stories. We want to tell the stories that people will talk about.
Other people don't know what you've gone through. And everybody has a story that you probably don't know.
I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.
I'm with the Grimms on this: stories for young and old. You can't characterize them any better than that.
The main feature should be the teaching of principles through stories. Don't make it metaphysical at all.
My best clients tell stories that inspire. They tell stories about situations that you can identify with.
'Sorry' just fit the bill for the crossover that both Lost Stories and I were attempting to do musically.
The technology is not only the way we change stories, but also changing the relationship to the consumer.
The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting.
Whichever character I'm using and wherever I am in my mind dictates what kind of story I'm going to tell.
All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.
Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections
In a story, the craftsmanship is fully exposed. A novel is like charity; it covers a multitude of faults.
But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.
Men and women are both humans, so, for me, that makes my characters and the work that I do human stories.
Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.
You have to want to write and like to write. Sit down at that desk or machine or laptop and tell stories.
I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself.
I think that we want to be led slightly astray when we're being told a story. Just a little wrong footed.
I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.
What I really want to do is produce. There isn’t much patience with a slow developing story line anymore.
I've gone through a lot of stuff in my life so far. There are stories I haven't really been able to tell.
On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.
I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire.
Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.
Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are.
A lot of the time you just have to follow your creative muse and do what you think is best for the story.
The sad ending is only because the author stops telling the story. But it still goes on. It's just untold.
All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.
My favorite thing in the world is telling stories, and most of what I do is telling stories through music.
My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea market.
[The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.
Accents can be a great tool to tell a story - but if you do it wrong, it pulls you right out of the movie.
Our story is over, yes, but our journey isn't, because we'll always live on the edge until the day we die.