All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they’re any good, the ending is a beginning.
Our stories are the tellers of us.
Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well – here is the truth – you have to talk yourself out of it.
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive.
All my life I’ve been interested in other people’s stories. I wanted to know them, understand them, feel them.
I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn’t read the words, so I made up my own stories.
At a certain point, I realized that I could draw anything, and there was nothing I should avoid – I could make it work. That’s opened me up to being able to be much more comfortable telling any kind of story.
I don’t necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It’s caring about something that’s utterly meaningless.
I think it’s pretty obvious that women’s stories are not necessarily being told in Hollywood and women are not necessarily being put in the leadership positions they deserve in mainstream film.
But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don’t write short stories because they turn into novels.
It still might be a shock. To realize you are just one story walking among millions.
On the red carpet, I saw all these great stories, and I also got to see the plastic surgery up close.
George W. Bush bought the election – period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.
Listen to me, convict. I have not traveled all this way to listen to your war stories. So shut your trap before I shut it for you. Commander Julius Root.
I don’t plan my books. I don’t know what’s going to happen. That’s why I could pick up any one of my 30 books and I could continue the story on.
And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I – but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn’t much time.
I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.
This is the story of what a Woman’s patience can endure, and what a Man’s resolution can achieve.
The dynamism and freedom that characterizes the West is the product of Christianity’s reforming itself and moving forward culturally. The ascendancy of the West is the story of the difference that Christianity makes, and it’s a story we can’t let our culture forget.
The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.