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And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now.
By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths.
I wasn't elected to sugar coat things.I wasn't elected to tell stories and twist the stories around to the public.
Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.
The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger.
Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.
In my stories I can kiss the girls I want to kiss and punch the girls I want to punch. Nobody pays a price for it.
No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning.
At some point if you had gone into all of our stories in depth that would've just kind of been all over the place.
Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.
Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background.
Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.
I think now I'm just excited to continue directing and find stories that inspire me and bring those to the screen.
In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love.
I think that, in Hebrew, it's like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story.
Never ask for someone's thoughts on autism unless you are prepared to hear a story that doesn't resemble your own.
There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.
I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.
And all the stories had, somewhere, the witch. The wicked old witch. And Tiffany had thought: Where's the evidence?
A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my head always.
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.
This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.
The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with.
I travel so much on stories, so I don't take vacation much, but one place I go back to again and again is my ranch.
Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.
I rewrite my books until they're mostly memorized so that's a lot of rewrites, a lot of time spent with my stories.
I would figure out, later, how to explain to my boss that, for me, Delia will never be a story, but a happy ending.
Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story.
In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.
Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.
How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story?
I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up.
Obviously not a Stephen King level writer, but I'd written short stories and short fiction, from the time I was 12.
Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.
Every story is a story about death. But perhaps, if we are lucky, our story about death is also a story about love.
For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.
New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.
He tried to reconstruct the story in his mind, but it kept getting confused, bleeding into itself like watercolors.
I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy.
Sometimes that happens when people don't really know how long they're going to have to stretch their story out for.
A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.
I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.
Dig into almost every overnight success story and you’ll find about a decade’s worth of hard work and perseverance.
We always have to ask ourselves whether the level of risk is worth the story. What is bravery, and what is bravado?
It occurred to me that everyone’s story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk.
A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.
Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.
The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don’t ever ask for the true story.
The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!