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Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.
I had a stage when I was 12 years old. I had a puppet show career. I wrote horror stories in camp, and all the parents called and complained.
I tell the stories in front of audiences and wait for something to happen. It's similar to a standup comic doing his schtick for an audience.
But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.
Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.
People love stories and the more you can give information and knowledge and even wisdom through a story, the more likely you are to be heard.
I love the ordered mind of history because it takes us out of the chaos, momentarily, and says, "Ah, so this is the story we are engaged in."
But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end
all stories are like those about the creation of the universe, no one was there, no one witnessed anything, yet everyone knows what happened.
Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours.
The ability to see our lives as stories rather than unrelated, random events increases the possibility for significant and purposeful action.
As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates.
We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story.
The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.
We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That's not just my story. That's your story. That's our story.
I don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story. I don't achieve nearly what I want.
The most purely autobiographical fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more autobiographical story than "The Metamorphosis".
The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.
I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.
The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.
The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.
You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons.
You can't always see both sides of the story. Eventually, you have to pick a side and stick with it. No more equivocating. You have to commit.
There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.
When I think of Tokyo Story, yeah, it is like a novella. That doesn't mean it's not great. Some of my favorite Tolstoy works are his novellas.
Take one story, viewed from two different angles. It is the same day, the same moment, but one angle ends happily... and the other ends badly.
Short stories are like individual jewel stones on a necklace, wonderful in themselves like standalone gleaming entities of semantic intensity.
If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.
I did a film called 'Fort McCoy,' based on a true story of one of the few internment camps during WWII that was actually in the United States.
We must have something of substance to say in our worship [services] that reminds us why Christ's story is so unique and so utterly essential.
If you create a good story that has a lot of story value I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.
The biggest story in all of politics are the millions of people that are coming out to vote for me, in all fairness, for the Republican Party.
Stories. They're everywhere...You never know where they start and you certainly don't know where they'll end. If they ever DO end. (Nevermore)
The stories are most often about justice. In her stories, those who commit injustice, or act tyrannically, come to no good. They are punished.
Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche.
Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.
You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
As a child, I'd always liked cowboys and Indians stories where there were two layers - gruesome in the foreground but funny in the background.
We are dependent on each other. Therefore, replenishing the soil, replenishing society and being part of one continuum - that's the new story.
We're really having a problem right now in our culture. I haven't seen one movie lately in which the story and visuals have been equally good.
As an actor, to be part of that story's [Marvel univerce ] terrific. I've enjoyed it so much as a fan and now I'm getting to have a go myself.
You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.
There are no such things as happy endings. Never. They're totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on a high point.
It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib.
Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.
The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.
I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.
If you follow the trail of your own enthusiastically repeated stories, you will begin to rediscover the things that invigorate and enliven you.
Tell me how many songs that I must sing before I can see you in your glory, hear your whole entire story, bathe inside your golden, golden sea?