I'm not sure why, but I seem to be drawn to stories about abuses of power. But I'm also drawn, not so much to victims' stories, as stories that tend to show how power works. Because if you don't understand the criminals, you can't figure out how to s...
One’s story isn’t a skin to be shed— it’s inescapable, one’s body and blood. You go on pumping it out till you die, the story veined with the themes of your life, the ever-recurring story that’s at once your invention and the invention of...
A story is not a thing. A story is an act. It only exists in the brief moment of its telling. The question you must ask is what a story has the power to do. The truth of something you do is very different from the truth of something you know.
Depression is a phobia of happiness.
Every book is a world.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
And the stories we tell ourselves are not the only stories.
If the goal of an actor is to tell the best story ever, there's no higher story than Jesus Christ.
Suddenly I remembered that laugh, it told a different story, our story.
The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.
It's not a romance, it's a love story.
When your share your story with someone, it becomes their story too.
What doesn't kill us makes a good story.
A good story will always outlive the truth.
People still love a good story, and I don't think that will change.
It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.
Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.
When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.
Anything with a good story and characters I think would be great.
I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
