Critics seem to forget that every love story is different - that there is uniqueness in even the most commonplace of matches.
The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.
Charlie Kaufman: The book has no story. There's no story. Marty: Alright. Make one up.
You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth.
When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing.
The pressures to get the story first, if wrong, are greater sometimes than the pressures to get the story right, if late.
A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
The papers say we're married, but it's the heart that writes the love story.
The Completeness of True Love Stories Lies in Their INCOMPLETENESS" by:- LOVE UNSUNG
Bad decisions create a good lessons, photos however create a good stories.
A good story is like a well-placed punch: quick, effective, and impossible to ignore.
The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.
I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story is not intended for them. I am telling it to those who have a better knowledge of man. The adult who has learned to tr...
Lewis had said that there is no creativity in us—that we are all sub-creators pirating and rearranging portions of reality. I agreed. But it was only an idea. And then it took on flesh. I began to see the world more like a cook than a writer. There...
When you have to face up to the fact that marriage to the man you love is really over, that's very tough, sheer agony. In that kind of harrowing situation, I always go away and cut myself off from the world. Also, I sober up immediately when there is...
He is dead and I, the self serving coward that I am, still live. Life is not fair. There is no pattern. People die at random. Something everyone knows, but no one truly believes. They think that when it comes to them there will be a lesson, a meaning...
Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road. Switchback after switchback. And the point of biblical stories like Joseph and Job and Esther and Ruth is to help us fe...
I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men." "Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you p...
You're anxious to jump into the river, but you haven't checked to see if the water is deep enough." I don't bother pretending. "Sopeap, you speak in riddles. What are you saying?" "I'm saying that life at the dump has limitations, but it serves a pla...
I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination. I had been damaged, and a very important part of me had been destroyed - that ...
This is an extremely difficult matter for modern readers of the gospels to grasp, but Luke never meant for his story about Jesus's birth at Bethlehem to be understood as historical fact. Luke would have had no idea what we in the modern world even me...
