If you wish to avoid an unpleasant story you had best put this book down.
Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with an unhappy ending.
If my serenade of song and story should serve as a pillow for some composer’s head, as yet perhaps unborn, to dream and build on our fond melodies in his tomorrow, I have not labored in vain.
I never use soundtrack; it is always part of the story.
The “Toy Story” films accomplish what timeless classics aim for – innocent characters who face an endless trail of adventures.
When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it’s just one damn thing after another.
My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.
My stories do have plot. They’re not just scattered language; they’re controlled, toward an end.
Some stories don’t have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.
You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.
By coming forward and sharing your story, you don’t know the countless lives you change.
Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we’d naturally do.
You have to just look at it like Titanic: I know the ship sinks, but this is a love story.
I don’t think it’s going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.
Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.
I write as well as I can. I’m a journalist at heart, so it’s the story that matters.
Death steals everything except our stories.
A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.
The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.
When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought.