I’m not saying that you should deny the difficult events of your life. But the fact that you survived is also a wonderful story to tell. And that story, the story of the way you came through a difficult situation, found resources within yourself or...
We can tell people abstract rules of thumb which we have derived from prior experiences, but it is very difficult for other people to learn from these. We have difficulty remembering such abstractions, but we can more easily remember a good story. St...
Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.
He's a couple sandwiches short of a picnic.
The trouble with records is that they're too short.
In short, software is eating the world.
Life is just too short to count calories forever!
No story is ever the whole story.
'The Notebook' is one of my favorite love stories.
Everybody's got stories. I don't want to not have stories.
No good story is quite true.
Life is a story within a story.
A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?
No story is worth telling without the twists and turns. Make them count instead.
Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of the story.
And then ... perhaps someone will write a book about making a film about a story that is taken from this book which is taken from a real-life story that was copied from a story in a book. You know?
Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults.
In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others.
To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - the plot, as we call it - is only really a new whereby to catch something else.
The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.
I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.
