Charlie Kaufman: The book has no story. There's no story. Marty: Alright. Make one up.
Senior Ed Bloom: And that's my life story.
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.
....[T]he night terrors were no match for the glory of waking up to a new day in the Land of Israel. In every conscious moment, Yael was aware that she was living through times that would form the legends and myths of future generations. Just as her ...
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She walked away without bothering to look further. She knew he’d be fine. Her specialty was subduing without causing any real damage. He’d lie there for a few minutes. He’d be sore, maybe bruised tomorrow. He’d brush the cobwebs off his imagi...
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Mason: Dad, there's no real magic in the world, right? Dad: What do you mean? Mason: You know, like elves and stuff. People just made that up. Dad: Oh, I don't know. I mean, what makes you think that elves are any more magical than something like a w...
When David Markson wrote in June to complain about an author's getting an award he though should have been his, Wallace gently warned him away from the pitfall of envy: "Mostly I try to remember how lucky I am to be able to write, and doubly, triply ...
Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories. The first - the story of our quest for sexual love - is well known and well charted, its vagaries form the staple of music and literature, it is socially accepted and celebrated....
