I’ve written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.
Linda Brewer’s example is inspiring, colorful and potentially very funny. Her journey also exists firmly in the Heartland tradition of American success stories and comedies.
Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they’ve got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I’m supposed to be more revealing than I’ve been, and to me it just sounds like something I don’t want to do.
In France, I have lots of opportunities. Maybe now I’ll be offered films in America. It’s the encounter, with the director and the story that counts.
It was always about the story rather than the character.
Just telling a story. That’s cinema. It’s not silent, black and white. It’s a simple story that’s well made.
To me Vivien Leigh was a tragic heroine of classic proportions: chosen, blessed and abandoned by the gods. Obstinately she tried to control and defy her destiny and to know her story is to be inspired by pity and terror.
Don’t wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.
But I want to tell my stories, more than that, I have to in order to stay sane.
I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.
The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes.
We are creatures of story.
A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.
As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates.
Every doorway, every intersection has a story.
Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
A story has been thought to its conclusion when it has taken its worst possible turn.
A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.
No matter how many times you forget it, you can turn around and help someone. Or you can deliver a positive message or share with someone or just listen to someone share their story with you, it’s just the best gift there is. And it’s free.
Parineeta is a classic love story.