He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.
If youre a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.
If you can tell a story well, you can move people to do something.
I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.
No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought; no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought.
A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.
Don't just read words,' he would tell her as he held up the latest story, 'devour them. Let the words create new worlds.
"Openness" [story] ultimately asks this same question - can a relationship survive complete honesty? As a romantic, I want to say "Yes, of course!" But, over time, I've come to agree with Dan Savage.
If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.
Begin your story with a sentence that will immediately grab hold of your listener's ears like a surly nun in a Catholic school.
A young choreographer often gets hung up on thinking they have to have all the answers. As a choreographer ages, they realize that they're more of a steward to movement. We mold movement and curate and form it into plausible and understandable stories.
Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time. . . I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car.
I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.
I went to Paris in 1989 when the Americans didn't quite know what to do with me at first. Now, all those years later, it's kind of the same story. Not the same scenario, but kind of the same story.
Rex Stout's narrative and dialogue could not be improved, and he passes the supreme test of being rereadable. I don't know how many times I have reread the Wolfe stories, but plenty. I know exactly what is coming and how it is all going to end, but it doesn't matter. That's writing.
Beginning authors often get in their own way … They forget that they’ve been telling stories since they could talk. … The important thing to remember is, you know how to do this. You’ve been doing this your whole life.
I've always known when I start a story what the last line is. It's always been the case, since the first story I ever wrote. I don't know how it's going to get there, but I seem to need the destination. I need to know where I end up. It never changes, ever.
A lot of things just got distorted, like stories about each other. After the tour we never talked. I believe a band should be a band.
When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and subtle of discourses […]. ‘The more solitary and isolated I become, the more I come to like stories,’ he said.