I was researching a different World War II story when I came across an article in the ‘Chicago Tribune’ from June 1945 that knocked me for a loop. The article explained that a military plane...

Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not be the case for non-Indians.

But I have already told the beginning, so right now it’s the middle. And Zeb is in the middle of the story about Zeb. He is in the middle of his own story.I am not...

Every story is us

Sadly, for those who are busy sawing off their feet to escape the trap of cliches, every story is chock full of them and sometimes depends on an especially hoary one.

Every major summer blockbuster that is released is essentially a product line being launched across multiple verticals. However, the centerpiece of the product launch is a big, beautiful story whose job is to entertain.

Ture stories can’t be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

Blurred is the picture, To not know what’s next! Is it the laughter that awaits, Or sorrows lined up to dictate. Untold, unclear is…A story of our fate!

When your life flashes through your eyes make sure there is enough to see, until then work hard on your ambitions and live life to the fullest.

This story is about love, which means that it is also about hate.

Some people love their story that much even if it’s of their own misery, even if it ties them to unhappiness, or they don’t know how to stop telling it. Maybe it’s about loving coherence...

I thought you could build a story that would function as a machine or else a complex of machines, each one moving separately, yet part of a process that ultimately would produce an emotion or...

There’s always a story. It’s all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything’s got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.

At one point in your life you have to decide whether you want to become a sachem or a solitary.

This love is hard core. Let’s make it soft porn.

Courier 12 is the Type-O blood of fonts – works just as good for a ‘N.Y. Times’ op-ed as a screenplay or a short story.

I don’t see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.

I’m not tied to budgets. I’m tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it’s going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is.

I have always thought that librarians are a little bit like doctors, travel agents and professors all rolled into one. We all know that a great story can lift spirits, take you anywhere in the...

History isn’t all fact–it’s just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it’s been a slow revision. The more time passes, the easier it becomes to reinvent the past.

I write until the first draft is finished, and then I feel that I can get out. But, during the time of the writing of the first draft, I don’t go out. I’m just locked...

I believe every story that is made in the mind of an author; has a trace in real world.A historical fiction completely or partly has happened in the past and a fiction will happen in...

The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.

There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person’s story is as different as his fingertips.

The sleds accelerated quickly as they glided effortlessly over the smooth ice. We had never before experienced such a quick, easy slide. usually we wished we could push ourselves to make our sleds go faster....

All grown-ups were once children… but only few of them remember it.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with ‘Highway,’ there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended ‘Highway’ to be the first film that I ever made....

And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this...

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.

The unknown characters of writing seem to be endowed with an evil of life of their own as though sentient, and fain would wrest themselves forth from the parchment and wreak mischief on whomsoever gazes...

The story with anorexic girls – nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn’t realise I was going to get educated.

Just imagine the existence of a man – let us call him A – who has left youth far behind, and of a woman whom we may call B, who is young and happy and...

A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn’t telling, or teaching, or ordering. Rather, he seeks to establish a relationship with meaning, of feeling, of observing....

If you want to know someone’s story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It’s new, even to me.

I don’t have a story,” I said. “I’m still waiting for one.

I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels – more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.

The term – ‘Fairy-Tales’ is so ironical in itself, when I sometimes sit to write love stories with a happy ending, it usually drags me into a dilemma whether, I should even begin with a...

If ever you feel lost, terrified, alone, emotionally and physically drained…when you feel like depression has overpowered you, and that the world itself, has devoured you…just remember that you are not alone, you are loved,...

Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly.

The Irish way of telling a story is a complex and elaborate one, complete with wild exaggerations, a certain delight in improbable fantasy, and a heightened sense of drama.

Each song, you’re telling a story and acting.

The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.

Tell someone a story, and you capture their imagination. Make someone laugh, and you capture their friendship. Bring a tear to their eye with poignant grace, and you capture their heart. But never, never attempt...

And then … perhaps someone will write a book about making a film about a story that is taken from this book which is taken from a real-life story that was copied from a story...

i immersemyselfin youlikei immerse myselfinto a beautiful story.

For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.

On the late afternoon streets, everyone hurries along, going about their own business.Who is the person walking in front of you on the rain-drenched sidewalk?He is covered with an umbrella, and all you can see...

We are contemporary citizens living in a technological world. Swimming in crosscultural waters can be dangerous, and if you are honest you can’t stay there very long. Sooner or later you have to look at...

A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you...