I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.
I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.
The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else's story.
From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.
'Letters From Home' is a 90,000-word WWII love story with a twist, aptly summarized as 'The Notebook' meets 'Saving Private Ryan.'
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story.
One of the pillars of 'Cyrano' is recreating a love story and, like any archetype, these great stories tend to be captivating , among other things, because they are made of those universal things that move us.
College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.
I definitely would like to do something serious. Not like a love story, but serious like maybe a gangster or a mobster. A gang or a mob movie would be great.
I never would rule out a great character or a great story. I don't care what the forum is. If I get to tell a story that I'm excited about, I'm in.
Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.
Courier 12 is the Type-O blood of fonts - works just as good for a 'N.Y. Times' op-ed as a screenplay or a short story.
I think that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.
I'm not very good at story. In fact, compared to character and language, I barely care about story at all.
In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the thematic concerns of compelling stories.
Do goofy stories make people nice? What if, in their goofiness, these stories somehow inspire that in the right way. Is that a social good?
And I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies.
Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just a seductive one?
