I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.
I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.
I just like traditional songs that come from an honest place, and they make you feel something and tell a story and they flow right.
I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.
It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous scene. [ , January 1942]
Your story may not have such a happy beginning but that does not make you who you are, it is the rest of it- who you choose to be
God created philosophy for all the intellects that got bored of hearing the same bible stories every Sunday.
When you know the inside stories, no matter how good looks the cover, you just cannot appreciate it...
I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.
I'm not so naive as to think that everybody always succeeds, right? I mean, half of Shakespeare's stories are tragedies - right?
I care more about making sure the story is correct and the characters are behaving in character than I do about the individual jokes.
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.
Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.
I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.
You have to have a plot too, you know? Because without it, your life is less of a story and more of an empty paper.
I am a curious person and, believe it or not, I really do like to sit back and listen to people's stories.
I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like 'Stop moaning and write something.'
That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?
All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.
I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.
My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.
