Any carefully planned thing destroys the creativity. You can't think your way through a story; you have to live it. So, you don't build a story; you allow it to explode.
I never felt pressured to create more stories, but dealing with people became really aggravating.
All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that… Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more.
Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson's.
My job is to tell good stories, convey meanings, invoke emotion as well as I can. I'd rather be doing that than anything else.
Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.
A good story is always a journey. It is about taking the journey, the people the hero meets along the way and how they change him or her. All stories are journeys. They don't have to be shocking or outrageous: they simply have to be interesting.
A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.
I think it's important to remember that writing is a gift and our stories are gifts to ourselves and to the world and sometimes giving isn't always the easiest thing to do but it comes back.
Whatever the drama of the story is, you have to be true to it.
I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.
We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
The regional tags are often pejorative and dismissive. Don't think of place-bound stories, in other words, but of stories with a strong sense of place.
When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century.
What you see determines how you interpret the world, which in turn influences what you expect of the world and how you expect the story of your life to unfold.
Everybody has their story to tell.
Stephen Schlesinger’s Act of Creation tells a dazzling story of the dramatic events that have shaped the world in which we live. Never has a book been more relevant to present dangers and future hopes.
What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike other writers'.
We feel no obligation to follow the news cycle. In other words, I felt no obligation to cover story in anyway, because we're not like I said, we're not journalists. And at that point, there's nothing sort of funny or absurd or to say about it.