Will Bloom: A man tells so many stories, that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal.
He tells you stories, but then, after a while, when you want more, he doesn't give you more. He insists on this old elaboration, the old stories that never changes.
Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.
Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.
Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story." [ , BookBrowse, 1998]
All of life, Orhan realizes, is a story within a story; how we choose to listen and which words we choose to speak makes all the difference.
I don't think there's any story worth dying for, but I do think there are stories worth taking risks for.
A story in your head isn't a story. It's just a daydream until you actually write it down. So write it down.
I've learned there is a void in adult stories across the land. Hollywood, whatever that is anymore, is losing their ability to tell those stories because they're not even thinking of that audience.
Some people believe in telling stories. Some believe in doing things about which stories will be told in times to come.
Good content isn’t about good storytelling. It’s about telling a true story well.
Time can be cruel if you don’t use it wisely ~ Imani Wisdom, Zion's Road: A Love Story about Faith and Redemption.
A community, a family, is a group of people who share common stories. The health of any community depends directly on the health of the stories the community embraces.
Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story.
don't read the success stories you will get message but read the failure stories you will get the ideas become successful
A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin.
[Jane] Austen was not a novelist for nothing: she knew that our stories are what make us human, and that listening to someone else's stories -- entering into their feelings, validating their experiences -- is the highest way of acknowledging their hu...
Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.
The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.
I think we do have our true, original stories that work. I can tell you that 'The King's Speech,' which we did, became a worldwide smash because people loved the personal story.
I have an idea for a story, and if the idea is going to work, then one of the characters steps forward, and I hear her voice telling the story. This is what has happened with all the books I've written in the first person.
