The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else's story.
From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain
Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.
'Letters From Home' is a 90,000-word WWII love story with a twist, aptly summarized as 'The Notebook' meets 'Saving Private Ryan.'
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story.
One of the pillars of 'Cyrano' is recreating a love story and, like any archetype, these great stories tend to be captivating , among other things, because they are made of those universal things that move us.
College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.
I definitely would like to do something serious. Not like a love story, but serious like maybe a gangster or a mobster. A gang or a mob movie would be great.
I never would rule out a great character or a great story. I don't care what the forum is. If I get to tell a story that I'm excited about, I'm in.
Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.
Everything runs its course. We had told a lot of stories that happened in our life. My kid was getting older, and we were running out of stories to tell.
A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating, layered, and revealing way.
'The Hunger Games' for me is I love the books so much and the character and the story were incredible. That's kind of the game plan is just do really interesting stories with interesting characters.
Some people are going to leave, but that's not the end of your story. That's the end of their part in your story.
The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons, but children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.
From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it.
I think ad networks is an ongoing story. Federated was a chapter in that story, and it continues to write a new one.
I don't have no story. Everybody wants this Hollywood story, but the world don't owe you nothing, man. It's what you owe the world.
