Critics seem to forget that every love story is different - that there is uniqueness in even the most commonplace of matches.
The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.
Charlie Kaufman: The book has no story. There's no story. Marty: Alright. Make one up.
Senior Ed Bloom: And that's my life story.
When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing.
The pressures to get the story first, if wrong, are greater sometimes than the pressures to get the story right, if late.
A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
The papers say we're married, but it's the heart that writes the love story.
Bad decisions create a good lessons, photos however create a good stories.
A good story is like a well-placed punch: quick, effective, and impossible to ignore.
The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.
When David Markson wrote in June to complain about an author's getting an award he though should have been his, Wallace gently warned him away from the pitfall of envy: "Mostly I try to remember how lucky I am to be able to write, and doubly, triply ...
Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories. The first - the story of our quest for sexual love - is well known and well charted, its vagaries form the staple of music and literature, it is socially accepted and celebrated....
Everyone tells a story about themselves in their own head. That story makes you what you are, dictating all your actions and all your mistakes. If your own story is filled with guilt and fear and self-hatred, life can look pretty miserable.But, if yo...
Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me offer you a definition - is the storytelling animal. Wherever he goes he wants to leave behind not a chaotic wake, not an empty s...
And here lies the crux of the matter: to say that nature is personal may mean not so much seeing the world differently as acting differently -- or, to state it another way, it may mean interacting with more-than-human others in nature as if those oth...
True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.
An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for a time, a kind of dreary tranquillity.
Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame; It is the reflex of our earthly frame, That takes its meaning from the nobler part, And but translates the language of the heart.
Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius.
Have you ever heard of the theory that it is better for one man to die than an entire nation to suffer? Do you believe that to be true? Is it ever okay to take a life in hopes of saving others?
