Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.
A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.
The media is looking every season for a designer to tell a story. I have a long story I have to tell, continuing fluently year after year.
Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.
All the stories and poems and letters and oracles and wisdom verses of God's Word, like individual instruments in a great orchestra, serve THE WHOLE story.
If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
I have a friend who likes to date younger women because their stories are shorter. Old men like us, our stories are longer.
I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures.
All the bruised lives, searching hearts...Everyone wants a love story but few will risk what it takes to live one.
To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.
I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.
You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.
Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.
The stories in 'Parenthood' are so much the stories of our lives. And the people who have worked on the show feel very connected to these characters.
Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story.
I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story.
The biblical story is in dialogue with the other stories of its time. And if the Bible can be in dialogue with other cultures, why can't the people who are descendants of the Bible be in dialogue with other cultures?
I don't have, you know, an 'overcoming addiction' story, other than the guitar itself, and I haven't overcome that. I don't have a jail time, you know, story, or any arrests.
Chris Christie has been saying for a long time he's not interested in running. The media is trying to create a story by sucking Chris Christie into race, just like they made a story by sucking Rick Perry into the race.
Isaac Davis: Years ago I wrote this short story about my Mother called "The Castrating Zionist"
Narrator: Thus... the first sound to escape Grenouille's lips sent his mother to the gallows.
