The next time you feel yourself giving in to the sometimes overwhelming urge to panic about the fate of literature in the digital age, follow this simple remedy: remember that you dream. For that is ironclad proof . . . that literature—that narrati...
A moment is a long story short.
I tell stories. That's what I do. I've always told stories.
And it's interesting, but I'm always interested in the story behind the story.
Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'
I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.
I love love stories, no matter how dark.
Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.
A story just isn't a story without a dragon.
When you feel moved by the story, you want to tell that story.
Press is basically a created story. It's all just stories.
I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories.
I'm always a sucker for a love story.
A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.
No one was irritable; we have never known anyone to remain unhappy while digesting a good meal. We enjoy lingering in a becalmed state, a kind of midpoint between the reverie of a thinker and the contentment of a cud-chewing animal, a state that shou...
Try this: Identify a bottom-up improvement or innovation in your organization, and interview the person who championed it. Chances are you will find a hero story of some kind. Why do we have to be heroes to implement perfectly good ideas?
Life is messy. Grit and grace come at us fast, side by side. Sometimes the grit becomes overwhelming and diminishes our spirit. What’s good seems lost and gone forever. This is a story about the pathway back to what’s beautiful, when the way back...
Reading requires actual . If you skipped a paragraph, or even an important sentence, you could lose the entire story. With most TV shows, though, you didn't have to concentrate at all. You could space out for a good ten minutes, then come back and st...
I took on a year of reading books for a reason. Because words are witness to life: they record what has happened, and they make it all real. Words create the stories that become history and become unforgettable. Even fiction portrays truth: good fict...
The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic term would be 'future fairy tales'. And even this is obj...
