I'm not very good at story. In fact, compared to character and language, I barely care about story at all.
In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the thematic concerns of compelling stories.
Do goofy stories make people nice? What if, in their goofiness, these stories somehow inspire that in the right way. Is that a social good?
And I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies.
Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just a seductive one?
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.
While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.
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.
I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.
Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.
My favorite short stories are by Alice Munro, especially her collections 'Carried Away' and 'Runaway.'
Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche.
I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'
In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story.
Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.
