Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.
Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.
What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter.
My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then new affluence.
Readers want a story, not a pattern. It's the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars.
Children and teenagers don't easily relate to stories about kings and dukes, and to tell only stories about kings and dukes is to ignore the regular people.
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
There are only three possible endings —aren't there? — to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That’s it. All stories end like that.
Fairy tales represent hundreds of years of stories based on thousands of years of stories told by hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions of tellers.
I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.
There's a magic to letting a story and its people unfold with witchcraft and late nights and walks in the woods. You don't lead a story. You follow it.
I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films: I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I want to tell.
Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be. -Soothsayer
When you write, you are telling a story...to yourself. When you revise, you are telling a story to yourself...over and over again.
I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.
I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
My short love story gave me lots of memories but i never wanted memories, I wanted you.
I'm a storyteller. I'm not like any other comic. I tell detailed stories - not made-up stuff, but true stories.
If you do a story about a British journalist rescuing a child from Sarajevo, then Sarajevo just becomes an exotic location, and the story's about this British journalist.
If someone tells you what a story is about, they are probably right. If they tell you that that is all a story is about, they are very definitely wrong.
You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.
