It wasn't a love story." -Tar's dad It was a love story. Me, Gemma, and junk." -Tar
If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit.
I once wrote a book ten stories high. Each story was a story.
First of all, tabloid stories are some of the richest and most important stories that we have. There's nothing wrong, per se, with tabloid stories.
We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader.
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.
Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.
I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.
I think you tell the story that has to be told. You tell the story that's the truth. You tell the story that readers will be interested in and should know about.
Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: Did the storm cause any damage, Big Daddy? Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: Which storm you talking about, the one on the outside or the hullabaloo I heard going on in here? Heard some mighty loud talking. What's the powwow abou...
Mr. Big Nose: I'll get you for this, you bastard. Parvus: Oh, yeah? Mr. Big Nose: Oh, yeah. Don't worry. I never forget a face. Parvus: No? Mr. Big Nose: I warned you. I'm going to punch you so hard, you Roman git! Parvus: Shut up, you Jewish turd! M...
The year has a wide mouth and a big belly.
It's a big wind that blows on small doors.
Two small antelopes can beat a big one.
A good conscience is better than a big wage.
The world is a big place but there is so little room in it.
If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the protagonist is transformed. He's a jerk at the beginn...
To call up modern versions of the old stories, one has to go forth and live life. As a result then, one will have the challenge of not only living the story, taking it all in, but also interpreting it in whatever ways are useful. So too, one will rea...
We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose. It's a good calling, then, to speak a better story. How brightly a better story shines. How easily the world looks...
In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them. One way or another we are living the stories planted in us early or along the way, we are also living the stories we planted - knowingly or...
The best stories (whether book or movie) involve redemption. If you are someone who believes you have made too many mistakes or your life has been too "bad" for God to want you, think of it this way: God, the greatest story teller, has not yet finish...
