A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

When you enter the woods of a fairy tale and it is night, the trees tower on either side of the path. They loom large because everything in the world of fairy tales is blown...

It’s fiction, the improbable is very probable in my worlds

The first book I fell in love with was ‘Little Toot,’ the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of New York Harbor.

Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren’t they? Death. The inevitability of death. . .. . . (quoting an obituary) ‘There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever...

I’m reminded of a story I told my 5th grade class in the 4th grade.

It’s very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.

I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story.

…I’ve never understood the logic that says a work doesn’t need to be judged on the quality of its writing or characters simply because its genre. On the other hand, I’ve also never understood the...

The story of ‘Highway’ is completely about travel. It is about the fascination of travel to an extent that I don’t want to even reach the destination and also being away from society gives you...

So I’m not really quite sure what Landis’ plans were to make another one. The American Werewolf in Paris was a completely separate story.

Die and born again, die and born again. It’s the story of my life.

When I make movies, I don’t ever go out there to please anyone other than myself. I never try to make a film for the masses. I just try to tell my story.

I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there’s a story there.

To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket, that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other.

It’s not about people believing the story. It’s about you knowing and holding it to be true.

The world of light and starry grace;within your mind I live to trace.Your thought’s speed in thunder’s glory,lightening my being with dream’s story.I embrace the tree carrying your nameYour unspoken wish : the heart of...

I can write two scripts concurrently, but I usually prefer to do one at a time. However, I also usually have 5 or 6 story ideas that are percolating in my head at any one...

A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that’s what separates a life story that can influence other people.

We live in the world we made up.

I try to tell a story that’s good enough to win the right to integrate eternal themes into it. If it’s poorly written or comes across as a sermon, then obviously you don’t reach people,...

All men needed to hear their stories told. He was a man, but if he died without telling the story he would be something less than that, an albino cockroach, a louse. The dungeon did...

A shot is only as every as good as how well it tells the story.

We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, open the window, and remind us that there are a whole lot...

It is the kernel of truth in every story that makes its writing beautiful beyond standards.

Corporate & personal branding both require storytelling to be captivating. Stories provide context, meaning & the opportunity for relationship.

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

You see it is likely that, when my brother told the story, that night when we got home and my mother and sister sat listening, I did not think he got the point. He was...

She was now drowning in that pool of desires without having any idea about the depth of it.

My first published book, ‘Story of a Girl’, was the fourth book I wrote.

Every story needs to be worth telling.

I have a great story to tell… and I tell it well. No holds barred.

Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there’s no one left to tell those stories? To hear them? Who will ever know that I existed? What if we are...

There’d be no story without complications. With nothing to overcome, we’d die unstoried deaths.

Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn’t afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story.

Every individual is an author in himself. It is only that he falls short of words to express; list of stories.

The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story.

Your audience is your adversary. If you don’t have one get one – imagine it. Imagine it now. To whom is your story addressed and why? Audience is always a creative act of the imagination....

I want my life to be the greatest story. My very existence will be the greatest poem.Watch me burn.Love always, Charlotte

The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it’s the same story with different characters and different costumes.

I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.

I realized that conventional views of Christian faith that I’d heard when I was growing up were simply made up – and I realized that many parts of the story of the early Christian movement...

We do not see things as they are, nor do we even see them as we are, but only as we believe our story to have been.

Somehow life had become a story problem, and William was horrible at math.

There’s a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it’s a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone...

The worst gig story I have is from a club in Alabama that I think is still up and running, so I won’t name the name of the club. We got hired in there to...

The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It’s the doorway through which they can’t return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.

As I mentioned briefly on the phone, the best thing about the Air Chrysalis is that it’s not an imitation of anyone. It has absolutely none of the usual new writer’s sense of ‘I want...

I’m not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.

If you are going to tell a story about a child going missing, it’s going to have similarities with a real life child going missing.