I did not imagine anyone reading my rambling, ranting stories. I was writing for myself, trying to shape my life outside my terrors and helplessness, to make it visible and real in a tangible way, in the way other people's seemed real -- the lives I ...
Brendan Frye: No, bulls would gum it. They'd flash their dusty standards at the wide-eyes and probably find some yegg to pin, probably even the right one. But they'd trample the real tracks and scare the real players back into their holes, and if we'...
Nobody's story is real unless we share it with someone who matters.
Often what people don't say or leave out, tells the real story.
The real problem is arranging that experience in a way that tells a story, which is just incredible enough to be interesting, but credible enough to be believed.
We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a writer's friend.
There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.
I've never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story.
In the twenty-first century, the visions of J.C. Nichols and Walt Disney have come full circle and joined. “Neighborhoods” are increasingly “developments,” corporate theme parks. But corporations aren’t interested in the messy ebb and flow ...
The author describes how impressed she was with the detailed storyboards that outlined her movie – "not just sketches, but real art". She then describes a Hawaiian sunset as, "God painting His storyboard on the sky".
Seated at the table, high in her firmament of gin, she looked critically at her brother and his wife, remembering some real or imagined injustice of her youth, for with any proximity the constellations of some families generate among themselves an as...
Wicca offered real, not pretended, means for the individual to express the art, beauty, and reality of ritual, including magic, in the here and now. --Paul Turnbull
All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop. She's realized the real problem with stories—if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.
Writing novels is much the same. You gather up bones and make your gate, but no matter how wonderful the gate might be, that alone doesn't make it a living breathing novel. A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magic...
I had wanted to be a novelist for so long, but I didn't have a story. That story came from the death of my father, and wrestling with how to help my mother. Writing it allowed me to work through my fears, frustrations and desires. I wanted control ov...
[from trailer] Augustus Waters: What's your story? Hazel Grace Lancaster: I was diagnosed when I was 13... Augustus Waters: No no no, Your real story. Hazel Grace Lancaster: I am quite unextraordinary. Augustus Waters: I reject that.
Everything you’re telling me was just a story, and now it’s real.
Without stories, we’d have even more trouble recognizing what’s real.
Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do.
The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.
The more people talk about eating disorders, the more people get the real story about what they're like.
