Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.
I was telling some people in my dressing room some of my other stories, my psychotic break, and blah, blah, blah, and no, they kind of look at you and it’s just not what they wanted to hear.
I do not make stories up, full stop.
Your protagonist is your reader’s portal into the story. The more observant he or she can be, the more vivid will be the world you’re creating. They don’t have to be super-educated, they just have to be mentally active. Keep them looking, thinking, wondering, remembering.
The fabulous places I’ve been, wonderful things that’ve happened, great people I’ve met ought to make a story.
The truth is, normal might take years. Normal might never happen. But it’s definitely not going to happen if I lounge around here watching soaps and avoiding life. I’m going to school today, end of story.
You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.
I don’t think there’s enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.
I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.
I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story – about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
Perhaps everyone has a story that could break your heart...
It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.
But the lesson of Abraham’s story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.
Most of my stories have some basis in fact.
I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.
I started writing stories in my spare time.
I think you have to be very careful with effects that they don’t overpower the story with the visual element.
I’m still interested in perfecting whatever talents I have and continuing to grow as an actor and continuing to be useful to the telling of the story.
If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation’s instrument.