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The only question that matters with regard to a religion and its mythology is “What do these stories mean?
I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
We laughed the rest of the way, because the point of this story is, it is not the cookies. It is the love.
I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.
If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.
If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?
There are so many difficult things and stories can make them palatable. That's the way I have always felt.
I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.
The story of journalism, on a day-to-day basis, is the story of the interaction of reporters and officials
I have to trust that if a story is strong, it can find its readership, and good editors can steer me well.
The number 1 thing that I don't want to see in a story is when characters exist simply to be proven wrong.
So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.
The Moguls is a story about guys that have all grown up together and are now in their late 40s, early 50s.
With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.
We must curb ourfury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation.
I am a curious person and, believe it or not, I really do like to sit back and listen to people's stories.
At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.
I don't believe Chinese movies should only have Chinese cast and talents shooting it with a Chinese story.
I don't think I've ever really pursued telling my story, but I think things come to you at the right time.
I currently live in the Plaza in New York and I love it - all that history, all those interesting stories.
If I told you the whole story it would never end...What's happened to me has happened to a thousand woman.
There is only the actuality of what happens in life. The rest is just a story, no matter who's telling it.
I like working in any medium. Who's making it? How much do I like the story? Does it contribute something?
I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories.
I adored history, not the dry dates and boring battles, but the stories and the people who populated them.
My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.
Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.
The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation - This story begins and ends in joy.
Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories.
If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.
In every woman's wardrobe, there are certain accessories that cannot be separated from their back stories.
I would guess that about 75% of my stories are like that - personal experiences that I probably over-milk.
Science is claiming ever more ground from popular stories of the kind we thought we weren't to believe in.
Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.
The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.
Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity.
You are the director of your own life story. Don't cast idiots or people will walk out during your 2nd act.
Ultimately ... it's not the stories that determine our choices, but the stories that we continue to choose.
I think there are some stories that need to be told by a specific person as opposed to in the third person.
As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.
To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do.
I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high.
I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.
Often I'll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go.
All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact.
I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.
Libraries hold the wisdom of the world and the stories of the ages - available to everyone, free of charge!
If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone.
Pain is as common as skin, we all experience it. It unites us all. Fortunately, that's not the whole story.