A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.
I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories without me. We're tied together forever. This is a day to remember for the rest of our lives.
Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.
That has been my entire life story, running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated.
We're all going to keep telling love stories, we're all going to tell hero stories. It's all a question of what your own thumbprint, your own DNA, is, and what it brings to the table that makes it unique.
I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.
My Soul to Keep is the ultimate love story with a black man and a black woman. I call it the ultimate love story. It's about an immortal. We're shooting for this Fall and that's been a six year development right there.
With the right mindset, you can turn a painful downfall into a setup for a great success story.
Never compare your love story to those you watch in movies. They're written by scriptwriters, yours is written by God.
We tell you, tapping on our brows, The story as it should be, As if the story of a house Were told or ever could be.
But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined.
I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.
Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it.
For impact, tell your true story -challenges, victory, all. Build hope by helping others find themselves by your story.
I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.
Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.
A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.
The media is looking every season for a designer to tell a story. I have a long story I have to tell, continuing fluently year after year.
All the stories and poems and letters and oracles and wisdom verses of God's Word, like individual instruments in a great orchestra, serve THE WHOLE story.
If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
