The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.
There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.
In The Name of the King is the right title. To be honest, I don't know who had the final idea for the title but I liked it and it has a strong connection to the movie's story.
All of our lives are a living, breathing story, and each heartbeat means a new page has been turned; chapters don't close, they continue.
There were a story scripted on the wall, no words used though, just pictures, memories, from another world. Her happy place.
Tell me the story.. About how the sun loved the moon so much.. That she died every night.. Just to let him breathe...
The creative process is beautiful and magical thing. Whether its a song, a radio story, or a novel, it all springs from the same place in the heart.
I have tread all three of his books and they held me spellbound interesting story. Its fiction based on fact...mmm I like!
There is no symbolism to these fish, as Hemingway wrote. A cabezon is just a cabezon; a garibaldi, a garibaldi. But what wonderful stories they tell us about life in the ocean!
People say everybody has a book inside them, so why not make your life a great story?
Give me a life time by the fire, with a book in my hand, nothing more and I will tell you a great story.
And as I venture into anothers pit of everlasting darkness, I'll return with a simple blackened rose. and with that rose I shall write the stories it tells.
...stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream. From Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion
If you have a story inside you but don't know where to start, look within and write from the heart, for the heart will never steer you wrong.
Each thing you add to your story is a drop of paint falling into clear water; it spreads through and colors everything.
Do not worry about what words to use. Worry about why this story needs to be told and the rest will take care of itself.
When I watch cop shows, I really enjoy them because you can really follow the story and get involved, and the characters are always really interesting.
I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.
Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.
All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.
The evergreen story of people in debt becomes even sexier in an economic downturn, when debts inevitably get harder to pay.