A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.
The short story is the literature of the nomad.
A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies.
Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write.
I miss directing. I see stories in images and music more so than in dialogue.
I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily.
Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.
I think the best type of action movie combines a love story with the action.
I’ve always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I’ve wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.
I have the ‘thing’ worked out – the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.
British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.
It’s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else’s story.
Mary Kom is a woman who stood up alone in a male-dominated field and fought for her rights and what she believed in. Her story is an inspiration for every young person out there.
When I discovered that I could write music, it felt like the most natural way for me to connect with people and tell my stories. I’ve always thought of that as what I do: I tell stories.
The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going to tell you the truth.
I don’t know what the definition of a short story is, and I don’t even care to answer that question. That’s something somebody in academia would think about. I just want to tell a story, and if people listen, and if it stays with you, it’s a story.
It’s difficult for me to have a large story, a very large story – a novel is a large story. I’m used to writing and doing these little miniature paintings.
You can’t really learn God’s hope like you learn the logic of an argument or the details of a story. It’s more like learning to belly laugh. You catch hope from someone who has it down in their gut.
You take out an injunction against somebody or some organisation and immediately news of that injunction and the people involved and the story behind the injunction is in a legal-free world on Twitter and the Internet. It’s pointless.