I’d realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story.

That’s what makes a good show. It doesn’t target one group. It tells a story everyone gets.

The more ‘life’ a story has the more readily will it be susceptible of allegorical interpretations: while the better a deliberate allegory is made the more nearly will it be acceptable just as a story.

My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours… it...

Don’t tell me that I can’t do it. Go and tell God that story. After all, He is the one who gave me the air to breath and be able to do it well! Go!

So it’s happened, I kept thinking, you’re in the middle of a story exactly as you’ve always wanted, and it’s horrible. Fear tastes quite different when you’re not just reading about it, Meggie, and playing...

I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.

I listen to the rain talk to the leaves. She tells a story of love and leaving (isn’t that always the story? Isn’t that always the punchline?) She tells it softly like someone who has...

It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It’s...

Saved or searching, we all need to be reminded of God’s interest in us individually and His love for us personally.

Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen.

Whatever I experienced in the world that I didn’t understand I’d invent a story and workout my understanding of something through the story.

The meaning did not precede the dream; the dream preceded the meaning. So the way to read the tale is to let the imagination carry one along. Not, above all, as a rebus to be...

Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as ‘legs’ therefore it, erm, runs.

Physics is the story of matter, with strings or particles.

Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story. (from...

In life, every ending is just the start of another story.

I’m not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.

In our modern age, there are writers who have heaped scorn on the very idea of the primacy of story. I’d rather warm my hands on a sunlit ice floe than try to coax fire...

It’s always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It’s more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs.

We build our understanding of the emotional world through the myths and legends of our culture. We are all, in part, made of fairy tales.

No one like the Incomplete Stories, so does the God 🙂

The basic story for the opener is that word came through the bar that someone got knifed and killed up on the Moon Walk. It turns out to be one of the quarter regulars that...

Free yourself from the inauthenticity and disempowerment of your story.

For grief has always been so dear to you that you would make me writhing in pain in the brothel of your imaginations than to be playing with a bunch of balloons in the yard...

‘Radioactive’ is the fall out of my life’s inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.

In general, I think you can watch a movie in two different ways. One is the ethical point of view, one is the point of view of the story.

Oh yes, I’ve been approached to do all sorts of nonsense. How about a remake of ‘West Side Story?’

Every story is informed by a worldview.

Real inspiration are not people, but their stories.

I’m aware of ‘Twilight,’ but I’ve never seen the movies or read any of the books. Frankly, the story leaves me cold – why do a vampire story about abstinence?

Only write a story that only you can write.

I always take a story that’s kind of out there, like an urban myth. I take some possibility that people imagine, that they are familiar with, and try to turn it into a story.

A good book ought to have something simple about it. And, like Eve, it ought to come from somewhere near the third rib: there ought to be a heart beating in it. A story that’s...

And the only sign of life is the ticking of the pen, introducing characters to memory like old friends.

I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.

He made me feel unhinged . . . like he could take me apart and put me back together again and again.

The story is uneven in its progression.

Songs are like children. They are all special to me – you can’t just pick a favorite. Of course, ‘Lucky Man’ was a special tune with a wonderful story behind it. They have all done...

At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the ‘what if – what then’ approach to...

a story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.

With the right mindset, you can turn a painful downfall into a setup for a great success story.

The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it’s a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don’t exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.

When story and behavior are consistent, we relax; when story and behavior are inconsistent, we get tense. We have a deep psychological need for our stories and behaviors to be consistent. We need to be...

There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don’t believe they are; it’s a technique to tell a story.

Nema novih priča. Svaka priča je stara, već poznata i bezroj puta ponovljena. Kao što se svaki život kreće od rođenja do smrti, tako se i svaka priča kreće od početka do kraja. Čak i...

That story you’re scared to share — that story has the power to change both your life and the lives of others.

I love involving actors at all levels – and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.

I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one, that has frightened and inspired us, so that we live in a Pearl White serial of continuing thought and wonder. Humans are...