If you're a writer, you know that the stories don't come to you - you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.
I guess you just feel like there's a whole story that's not being told in movies. You're only seeing the macho guy version of a story that from the woman's side, may be completely different.
I think that all stories - if you make movies about zombies and aliens - it has always to do with your personal story. If not directly, it is about your fears, your obsessions, things like that.
Human beings need stories, and we're looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it's television, whether it's comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.
Will Bloom: A man tells so many stories, that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal.
He tells you stories, but then, after a while, when you want more, he doesn't give you more. He insists on this old elaboration, the old stories that never changes.
Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.
Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.
Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story." [ , BookBrowse, 1998]
All of life, Orhan realizes, is a story within a story; how we choose to listen and which words we choose to speak makes all the difference.
I don't think there's any story worth dying for, but I do think there are stories worth taking risks for.
A story in your head isn't a story. It's just a daydream until you actually write it down. So write it down.
I've learned there is a void in adult stories across the land. Hollywood, whatever that is anymore, is losing their ability to tell those stories because they're not even thinking of that audience.
Some people believe in telling stories. Some believe in doing things about which stories will be told in times to come.
Good content isn’t about good storytelling. It’s about telling a true story well.
Time can be cruel if you don’t use it wisely ~ Imani Wisdom, Zion's Road: A Love Story about Faith and Redemption.
Moral stories are always imaginary , but these stories induce real moral values in a human society .
A community, a family, is a group of people who share common stories. The health of any community depends directly on the health of the stories the community embraces.
Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story.
don't read the success stories you will get message but read the failure stories you will get the ideas become successful
A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin.
