My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it’s a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.
Myths are wonderful – they really tell the stories that connect all of us and teach us so much.
Each person’s life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
Speaking of things that’ll make your head explode, “Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story” finally made it to the drive-in.
My mother was a children’s librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as ‘authentic Indian stories’ when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.
You’d tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story.
When AIDS was at its most brutal, frightening, my-God-what-are-we-going-to-do era, that was when vampire stories and stories about blood and trust swept the literary world.
Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author’s product. The real universe ain’t that way, and neither are my fictive ones.
Stories are the reproductive organs of language.
Forget about writing to Penthouse. This one was going to be a story for their grandkids.
True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
There’s always the standard six people you can hire that have played all these villains in Hollywood. Instinctively, when they come on screen, you know what’s going to happen. You don’t know the story, but you know what they do.
There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers – Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few.
I became a cook so I could cook and tell stories in wacky ways.
The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.
A child’s own story is a dream, but a good story is a dream that is true for more than one child.
Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.
Even knowing the ending was sad, I wouldn’t have deprived myself the beauty of the story.
The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.