A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.
I do a film because I like the story and I want to give life to a character - I don't necessarily have to agree with the director.
An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.
The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.
When you are gestating, you feel full of life, you feel full of joy, you feel full of fantasy, of stories.
Like life itself my stories have no point and get absolutely nowhere.
Traveling don't just captures beautiful scenery but it also captures life's stories
Got the story in mind but can not write. Knows the truth of life but can not lie.
You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life.
The thing is that my father's story helps to communicate what was at stake with my mother, and my mother and father had so much a partnership that his story is integral to her story, as her story is to his - really, her story can't be told without hi...
I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea of an everlasting life -- a never-ending banquet, as a stupid visiting minister to our church once appallingly described it -- filled me wi...
I am releasing my own demons of times gone by and seizing the opportunity to find my own corner, my own fortress, my own calm and peace. Life is not unfair.
It seems so long ago that he was last afraid of anything. Seventeen, was he then? Eighteen? Sometimes he thinks he's missing a lot by being like this - fear gives life a fillip. He wonders how it is he lost it all, and what there is - if anything - e...
But ultimately we attempted to find some middle ground because at the end of the day we love each other in spite of all our many and vast differences.
That is the power of a good story. It can encourage you, it can make you laugh, it can bring you joy. It will make you think, it will tap innto your hidden emotions, and it can make you cry. The power of a story can also bring about healing, give you...
I don't feel like I can change the world. I don't even try. I only want to change this small life that I see standing in front of me, which is suffering.
...I wondered about the story we were writing and wanted even more to write a better story for myself, something that leaves a beautiful feeling even as the credits roll.
Sometimes life is sad. You can cry in your booze, if you want. I think that’s called a Whiskey Sour.
Narrative is an open-ended invitation to ethical and poetical responsiveness. Storytelling invites us to become not just agents of our own lives, but narrators and readers as well. It shows us that the untold life is not worth living. There will alwa...
Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.
...ugly interlopers threaten to choke off your story, depriving it of much-needed nutrition, sunlight and water. Identify and cut those weeds – the life-sucking adverbs, the shade-killing descriptions that don’t move the story forward, the crowdi...
