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I'm inspired by almost everything I come across in life, and one way or another they find themselves sneaking into my stories.
I always liked 'Green Lantern,' but I wasn't necessarily a diehard fan. I read stories here and there when I came across them.
Anybody who pitches a story or an idea for a film to an executive, whatever the latest hit is, is what you're comparing it to.
Even though Doctor Strange is an established character, when you're doing an origin story there's a lot of room for manoeuvre.
You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.
With Crucible, any big changes I wanted to make I only had to run by Lucasfilm, not other authors whose stories I might affect.
Story is important but the most important is the theme and how you're going to convey theme cinematically. I'm a believer also.
Begin your story with a sentence that will immediately grab hold of your listener's ears like a surly nun in a Catholic school.
We have bodies. We have personalities. We have histories, stories and experiences. But we are not those things - we are Spirit.
As human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by — so you’d better be careful what stories you tell yourself.
That's the worst way you can hear about comedy material: from a third person's blog story that they wrote when they were upset.
We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.
If you like the story then don't hold back in telling me about it, and if you don't then please keep your opinions to yourself!
My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.
There's just no more compelling a story, no more compelling an issue, no more compelling a locus of human suffering than Sudan.
People are all the time telling me stories: they named their son after me, or more than likely their dog. Or they got a tattoo.
If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
I'm disappointed in television. I'm disappointed first of all in the audience that will not let stories be told in longer form.
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still witness.
For me, writing Bridget's [Jones] stories is an instinctive, organic thing, which tends to happen more by accident than design.
A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal.
When you're working on a script, every word that's on the page, somebody has to read it. Make every word count in your stories.
So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.
The approach to "building" a story with words and phrases is no different than "building" a painting with brushes and pigments.
A performance can have amazing visuals and special effects, but it has to tell a good story, even if that story isn't original.
There's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives.
The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.
You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
Let's make really good stories that people get something out of. That's the one common denominator with everything I try to do.
If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.
I'm always reading. And I keep a whole list of stories, often unusual stories. There are a hundred some-odd ideas on that list.
There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other.
History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.
I'm not so naive as to think that everybody always succeeds, right? I mean, half of Shakespeare's stories are tragedies - right?
Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.
The story has to flow from an unstructured, felt place, but then I have to bring my analytical brain to bear on issues of craft.
I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge.
Now I have new stories and I feel refreshed. There is talk of Bobby's World eventually coming back. I would be happy to do that.
I've met my share of guys who have insulted and assaulted my intelligence with their stories and games. I say hello and goodbye!
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
Every place has a story - or a thousand stories. Findery brings places to life, be they where you stand or where you hope to go.
No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
I've always been a Batman fan, and I've always wanted to draw and write the sort of stories that I've always loved about Batman.
It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know.
I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.
Less than 5% of cancers are related to genes. 95% are influenced by your lifestyle. You are the author of your biological story.