To see that your life is a story while you’re in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.
There is a limited number of plots. There is no limit to the number of stories.
I don’t want to be a propagandist, no matter how good the cause. I want to tell stories. It’s just that the stories have to square with my consciousness as a woman and my conscience as a human being.
I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There’s a story that wants to be told.
The notion that a story has a message assumes that it can be reduced to a few abstract words, neatly summarized in a school or college examination paper or a brisk critical review.
Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can’t understand that they end in him, but they don’t end with him.
For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it’s there, and you just reach up and pick it.
Other people’s stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.
Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your story. I will listen and remember.
Is she going to, or has she done it? Has it happened? What is the story here?
Another story must begin!
There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.
Every person you see has stories, and every person you see has a few that would break your heart. We deserve each other’s respect simply because we’ve survived all we have and kept going anyway.
Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then – our friends are not able to finish their stories.
All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.
Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
A good story can take you on a fantastic journey.
You’ll be a poorer person all your life if you don’t know some of the great stories and great poems.
I’m just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.
I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action.