Stories are a kind of theme park of mortality. Deadnyland.

Woolrich had a genius for creating types of story perfectly consonant with his world: the noir cop story, the clock race story, the waking nightmare, the oscillation thriller, the headlong through the night story, the...

Do you believe that our stories were written from before that we are but actors performing on the stage called life with neither rehearsals nor retakes, the dialogues of our own and a fleeting audience...

The very act of story-telling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of the narrative, is by definition holy. We tell stories because we can’t help it. We tell stories because we love...

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. ‘Emmanuel, don’t forget about us, don’t give up, keep telling our story.’

The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.

Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence manifest from the first sentence to fascinate the reader, to make him lose...

The Moguls is a story about guys that have all grown up together and are now in their late 40s, early 50s.

Every word Martone sets down, finally, a choice that limits the universe, their trail across the page a fossil record of some life’s life-story.

I hang out and sign records for an hour or two hours every night, and I like to hear as many people’s stories as I can, because if somebody wants to share their story with...

We must rewrite our story from one of fear to one of celebration.

A moment is a long story short.

A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.

One dead and one alone. That’s how the story ends.

This was not a love story that ended in tragedy.This was a tragedy that ended in a love story.

a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells.

If I get blocked, it is generally because I don’t know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so...

You have no control over how your story begins or ends. But by now, you should know that all things have an ending. Every spark returns to darkness. Every sound returns to silence. Every flower...

Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same...

The story I am going to tell has more than one beginning and without an end.

Never be afraid to share your story. No one can tell it like you can.

Every actor chooses their story at the beginning.

I’m inspired by my master’s movie ‘Kerd ma lui,’ Bruce Lee’s ‘Fists of Fury,’ and Jackie Chan’s ‘Police Story.’

Then there are the optimists. The story continues, but it stays the same. The princess lives happily ever after with her prince, probably pops out a few kids and carries on the bloodline. Marriages survive,...

I love books that give you space to climb inside there. And you have to run to keep up in places, and you have to fill in a lot of blanks yourself. So it almost...

It makes it harder to write if I watch a lot of television, because television is not like a written story.

Writing is hard work, and if anything’s true about the process, it’s that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper. What’s less romantic than staring alone...

A well-developed and versed character will write the story for you.

Perhaps somebody has alredy written it. But I want to write a story from the end till the very beginning.

They say a story loses something with each telling.

Writers do not have the privilege of sleep. There is always a story coming alive in their heads, constantly composing. Whether they choose it or not.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell… we can’t dance synonyms.

When I write fiction, I never try to deliver a message; I just want to tell a story. But I admit that I want the story to be memorable and the characters to touch the...

When we can’t understand the science behind something in this world, we make up mythological entities that we can relate to. We personify the forces of nature that mystify us, using our boundless imaginations to...

Every tree in the forest has a story to tell. Some of them were burnt but they endured the fire and got revived; some of them were cut, their barks injured, some people pick up...

A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the mud, uncles’ and cousins’ books, tablets and capsules and powders…and then one day...

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you’ve already taken a step towards it.

The question ‘What was there before creation?’ is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation.

When you write a story, it just flows and you don’t control it. It’s subconscious.

A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right – that’s something you can’t rush.

Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi… it’s all fine if the story’s compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot.

I think women love a passionate love story.

I love books where I can’t wait to turn every page, songs that grab me the first time I hear them, and films that make me totally forget about the craft because I am totally...

I outline in some detail, but even after the outline is done I often get a new idea that is an improvement, so the outline is a living, breathing thing as well. I also re-outline...

Everyone listened to this amusing narrative with great interest, and the moment that Behemoth concluded it, they all shouted in unison: ‘Lies!

Rob; you could have been someone I wanted to be with. But you’re not; you never spoke to Niall, not really. You joked and you danced, but how often did you really talk? You never...

In 1957, ‘West Side Story’ had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; ‘Bye Bye Birdie,’ set in Sweet Apple, Ohio, where the citizens apparently dress mostly in chartreuse, mauve, orange,...

If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.

Without our listening, all the stories are the same story.