I’m always writing. There is always a story brewing in my head.
I like directing much better. It’s more fun, that’s all there is to it. It’s essentially the same job, which is storytelling, but you have more control over the way you want to tell the story. It’s a high. I love it.
Every couple has two stories – the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version best left alone.
We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery.
It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve – a story which shows among other things, that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get into trouble.
A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.
Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.
Create a story of WOW that will be retold.
Great stories happen to those who can tell them.
Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It’s a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person and things happen to them and then something big happens and they realize something new.
American pictures usually have no subject, only a story. A pretty woman is not a subject. Julia Roberts doing this and that is not a subject.
To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories – that is the way it falls.
Good marketers tell a story.
Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database.
Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.
The only reason to buy a paper book any longer is to own it and cherish it and remember it and tell a story about it.
Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.
You’ll lose your reader if you are vague, not clear, and not present. We love details, personal connections, stories.
One poem or story doesn’t matter one way or the other. It’s the process of writing and life that matters.