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Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.
What you'll gain is the macro story. You'll get a good command of that. And what you might lose is some of the fun of it.
Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts.
I love to make stories out of license plates on cars about the initials and the numbers - my mum used to do that with me.
We can't live in a state of perpetual doubt, so we make up the best story possible and we live as if the story were true.
The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else’s story.
Comics are stories; they're like novels or anything else. So the first thing you have to do is become a good storyteller.
Never oversimplify yourself by using a single word or category to describe who you are. Take the time to tell your story.
I think there's a stigma to some degree about the outer boroughs and Jersey, and whether their stories are worth telling.
The press needs stories constantly. No need to bleed, just feed. Branding will keep you standing... Get press not stress.
I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.
The Souvenir is an incredibly specific story, but people recognise the universal in it. Because, that's how stories work.
There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like."
To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.
It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else.
We pick bygone time up by the handfuls and, like clay, see if it feels right and then form it into stories about the past.
The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.
Villains often more the story along while the heros react to the villains, so the villain becomes the engine of the story.
Whatever story you're telling, it will be more interesting if, at the end you add, "and then everything burst into flames.
Try writing an entire story with only a thousand words at your disposal. It’s a terrific lesson in economy and precession.
Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.
I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.
You don't need to go to Rome, Prague or Vienna to find wonderful architecture, amazing stories and suprising, hidden gems.
If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life.
I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.
That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.
Mortality is the most romantic story ever told. Just one chance to do everything you should. Then, magically, you move on.
The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share.
It seems like everyone's got an agenda, and the agenda seems to be selling magazines or air time with sensational stories.
I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.
There are so many projects that you go into hoping the story works, and here comes a new third act and that kind of thing.
Everyone enjoys stories of double lives and secret identities. Children have Superman; intellectuals have Wallace Stevens.
I am interested in people. I'm interested in telling stories, whether that is behind the camera or in front of the camera.
If the length of your life is much shorter than the story of your life, this means that you have lived your life so fully!
He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.
I love not being in a comfortable state, anyway. That makes for much more interesting storylines and an interesting story.
Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.
Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.
I lose patience with long stories. I get people who go, "Crumb, do some long stories, do a graphic novel." Novel-schmovel.
I like to end stories where the readers have a little room to run. They can resolve things as they like in their own mind.
I have some sort of affinity for compulsive behavior. The most interesting stories come up from the people on the outside.
I think that's why we're always so fascinated with criminal stories because there but for the grace of God it could be us.
No victim wants their record, or their minor story to be told. Every victim should have the right to tell their own story.
The more you go to a theatre and the more you hear stories you aren't necessarily familiar with, the more open you become.
I love telling teen stories where the characters are experiencing things for the first time - the stakes feel really high.
the announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening.
Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody's story.
It is not enough for a story to flow. It has to kind of trickle and glint as it crosses over the stones of the bare facts.