While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.
They have a book of locations, and we would do a story about the Sahara Desert for instance, and in the California book you would find a comparable location, to match that location in California.
'West Side Story' was one of the high points of my career. Yet, when I first saw it, I was really disappointed in how I came off.
My definition of an adventure game is an interactive story set with puzzles and obstacles to solve and worlds to explore.
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.
Sometimes losses in life are not losses at all. They are simply the evidence God provides, in order to build a story so profound, that it will cause social change.
It takes a hell of a lot of courage to walk into your own story, but to be the hero of your own life you have to rescue yourself.
It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.
Everyone was very deeply involved in the world of 'The Lord of the Rings'. From the wardrobe department to lighting, all were fascinated with the story. This is something that does not happen usually.
As an author, I breathe life into each and every character within the stories that I write. But it is the reader who gives them their souls.
I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
Such is the amazing power of stories to link us to our past and lead us all the way back to the present.
Everybody has their story - at some point you have to say, 'This is who I am: Now it's up to me to become what I want to be.'
Whatever they may say, your story is truly your own. You have a responsibility to it, the way a father has to a child
Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.
I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell stories.
A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.
I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.
How could she ever know that someone would pick her story up and carry it with him everywhere?
I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.
If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs you on to write.
